The Two-Thirds Rule and the Unit Rule

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Two years in advance of the Democratic National Convention of 1928 a movement has been put under way for the abolishment in that convention of the two-thirds rule which has governed the nomination of Democratic candidates for President and Vice president for nearly a century.

The stated purpose of this effort is to prevent a repetition in the next convention of the deadlock in the Madison Square Garden convention, which created bitter antagonisms in the party and contributed to the Democratic defeat in the national elections of 1924. The movement looks also to abandonment of the unit rule, and thus to placing full control of all proceedings in future conventions in the hands of a majority of the delegates.

The unit rule, although in its origin ...

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