WI Aaron Burr's schemes were more successful?

Robert P. Forbes noted in *The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath* that the 1824 election has many curious resemblances with that of 1800, and not just in the fact that it went into the House. Consider some of the candidates: a dour Adams, a states-rights southern republican (Jefferson/Crawford), and a military chieftain suspected of Bonapartist ambitions (Burr/Jackson)...
 
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