Quote Originally Posted by theclassics
Oh. I needed to say one more thing. The founding fathers were split in their views on the constitution. The Federalists were actually the ANTI FEDERALISTS (jefferson, madison, etc.) and vice versa. Jefferson and madison and their crew took the name Federalists therefore, Adams, Hamilton and THAT crew had no choice but to call themselves the anti federalists. It is EXACTLY backwards. That's history and I'm stickin to it! RON PAUL 2008! (there are Federalist papers and Anti Federalists papers)
I'm not sure about that ironically back then originally whoever won the election, like now, was the President and the first runner up became the Vice. John Adams was the second President and Thomas Jefferson, the opposing party, was his Vice.