The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president. It replaced the procedure in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, under which the Electoral College originally functioned.

The original text of the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

2024年10月28日 · The Twelfth Amendment changed a section of the United States Constitution and was passed by Congress in 1803. It was ratified by the states in 1804, just in time for that year’s election. Amendment 12 demonstrates the willingness of the Founding Fathers to adapt to change when necessary.

2024年12月27日 · Twelfth Amendment, amendment (1804) to the Constitution of the United States repealing and revising presidential election procedures. The catalyst for the Twelfth Amendment was the U.S. presidential election of 1800.

The Twelfth Amendment was designed to avoid a repetition of the events of 1800 by having the electors vote separately for President and Vice President, with each elector casting one vote for each office.

This Amendment, 1 which supersedes Article II, § 1, clause 3, was adopted so as to make impossible the situation that occurred after the election of 1800 in which Jefferson and Burr received tie votes in the electoral college, thus throwing the selection of a President into the House of Representatives, despite the fact that the electors had ...

Never again could presidential candidates and their running mates face the embarrassing kind of tie vote that forced the House to choose between Jefferson and Burr. The Twelfth Amendment was proposed by the Eighth Congress on December 9, 1803 and …

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2019年3月28日 · The 12th Amendment is the section of the Constitution that deals with the elections of both the President and the Vice President of the United States. It also directs the Electoral College on the voting procedure.

The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distin...