Seizing the opportunity Jefferson acted contrary to the lack of an explicit Constitutional authority, and the Federalists criticized him for acting without that authority, but most thought that this opportunity was exceptional and could not be missed.

Jefferson and Burr received the most electoral votes, but since neither had a majority, the election was decided in the Federalist-dominated House of Representatives.

Jefferson and contemporaries like James Madison were well aware of the possibility of tyranny from the majority and held this perspective in their implication of individual rights.

The total number of votes for Jefferson and Burr was 73, a majority of the total, but a tie between them.

Over the course of seven days, from February 11 to February 17, the House cast a total of 35 ballots, with Jefferson receiving the votes of eight state delegations each time — one short of the necessary majority of nine.

Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and James Madison led the opposition, which claimed that the bank was unconstitutional, and that it benefited merchants and investors at the expense of the majority of the population.

After the election, Jefferson and Burr both obtained a majority of electoral votes, but tied one another with 73 votes each.

Smith's slaying led to occupation of Jefferson by military troops who offered protection for the black majority.

In 2004, Jefferson was one of only 18 counties in Texas that gave Senator John Kerry a majority of the popular vote.

The majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Jefferson County, as well as most counties in eastern Oregon, are members of the Republican Party.

Jefferson Parish was one of the many parishes to cast the majority of its votes for Republican John McCain.

The majority of the Pacific Palisades area itself, south of the river, is accessed south of the city in Jefferson County.

Over four decades, for the majority of which she held no university position and was unsalaried, Jefferson ’ s research into talk-in-interaction has set the standard for what became known as Conversation Analysis ( CA ).

Such actions date back to the Judiciary Act of 1801 (" Midnight Judges Act "), in which Federalist President John Adams and the outgoing 6th Congress amended the Judiciary Act to create more federal judge seats for Adams to appoint and the Senate to confirm before the Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated and the Democratic-Republican majority 7th Congress convened.

While residents of the city of New Orleans gave Jefferson a slight majority over Carter, ( 51 % to 49 %); the Jefferson Parish share of the district voted for Jefferson by a staggering 71 % to 29 %, clearly swinging the election in his favor.

:-Judge John Minor Wisdom, writing for the majority in U. S. v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 1967.

:-Wisdom, writing for the majority in U. S. v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 1967.

This majority requirement caused a great deal of controversy in the 1800 election ; Since Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes, the House had to choose which one would become president.

" Critics of Black's reasoning ( most notably, former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ) have argued that the majority of states did have " official " churches at the time of the First Amendment's adoption and that James Madison, not Jefferson, was the principal drafter.

Madison and Jefferson favored a southerly site for the capital on the Potomac River, but they lacked a majority to pass the measure through Congress.

The two companies ' association actually dated to 1945, when Jefferson Standard bought majority control of Pilot Life.

", Rusty Venture spikes the homeschool prom punch with Crème de menthe, which is then also spiked by Jefferson Twilight with Sambuca, leading to the majority of the partygoers to become highly inebriated.

As it became clear by 1997-98 that GSGIS students made up a majority or near-majority of participants in all offerings but football and boys ' basketball, the teams in all but those two sports were officially designated Thomas Jefferson / Governor's School ( TJ / GS ) by the VHSL until GSGIS's move.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. pp. 167 – 91.

Also in 2004, a film was released on DVD entitled Fly Jefferson Airplane ( directed by Bob Sarles ).

' Jefferson ' was released to wholesale nurseries in 2004 and is becoming increasingly available for planting.

Jefferson County is a staunchly Democratic area, with even rural areas giving significant margins to John Kerry against George W. Bush in the 2004 U. S. presidential election.

These numbers show a small shift towards the Democratic candidate as well as a Third Party candidate when compared to the 2004 presidential election, in which 58. 7 % of Jefferson Country voters voted for George W. Bush, while 40 % voted for John Kerry, and 1. 3 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

The current JCCC was opened on September 15, 2004, replacing the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City.

According to a May 2004 Time Magazine article on obesity in the United States, Jefferson County had the highest percentage of obese adult residents ( 26. 1 %) of any county in the U. S. In that context, the percentage measured were those with a body mass index between 30 and 40 ( any measure greater than 40 corresponds to morbid obesity ).

This courthouse was the oldest continuously operating courthouse in the United States until 2004, when the current courthouse was constructed north of Jefferson.

The total population of the town was estimated at 340 in 2004 ( 338 in Waukesha County, 2 in Jefferson County ).

Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to The Maltese Falcon, 2004, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2004.

* Biology: Angela Belcher ( awarded 2004 MacArthur " Genius " Fellowship ), Carol W. Greider ( shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2009 ), Richard Anthony Jefferson, John La Puma

It crashed on October 14, 2004 in a residential area in Jefferson City, MO due to the flight crew pushing the plane past its capabilities and ignoring warnings.

Judge James Garrett of Jefferson County Circuit Court ruled " that Mr. Cherry's trial would be delayed indefinitely because a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation concluded that he was mentally incompetent .” He was later convicted in 2002, sentenced to life in prison, and died in 2004.

The Jefferson design is also the basis for the reverse design of some 2004 nickels.

* Aidan Woodger: Reuben Fine: A Comprehensive Record of an American Chess Career, 1929 – 1951, McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7864-1621-9

The couple subsequently had two children, Julia Laurette Randall ( b. 1997 ) and Jefferson Salvini Randall ( b. 1998 ), and they remained married until his death in 2004.

Isabel Sanford ( August 29, 1917 – July 9, 2004 ) was an American actress best known for her role as Louise " Weezy " Jefferson on the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family ( 1971 – 1975 ) and The Jeffersons ( 1975 – 1985 ).

Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2004.

In addition, Jefferson was a member of the USA Men's Olympic basketball team in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

On August 13, 2004, Jefferson signed a six-year, $ 78, 000, 000 contract extension with the Nets.