a government up until then, but few people had ever turned that control willingly over to anyone else. and as important as the transfer, the first transfer of power was, many historians believe that the next election was even more important. when in 18 oh one tell del mcdonough, 1801, one group of people are really for the first time ever in history, willingly, if not enthusiastically, gave control of the government to people they believed had a dramatically different view of what the government would, should, and could do. after that election that actually discovered a flaw in the constitution itself, which was remedied by the 12th amendment, thomas jefferson at that inauguration, beyond the chaos of the election that had just passed, said we are all republicans, we are all