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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 U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1789, is our supreme law. The first ten amendments were ratified in December 1791. The Eleventh Amendment was ratified in 1795 and the Twelfth in 1804.
Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.
Baca, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), a similar case based on a challenge to a Colorado law providing for the removal and replacement of an elector who does not vote for the presidential candidate who received the most votes in the state, with the electors claiming they have discretion to vote as they choose under the Twelfth Amendment to the United ...
The Amendment outlines how presidential electors in the electoral college cast ballots for the presidential ticket.
When the states have ratified the proposed amendment, then it becomes part of the Constitution. “…(O)ne or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by Congress…” to the states.
As stated in the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, if no candidate for either office achieves an absolute majority there, a contingent election is held by the United States House of Representatives to elect the president, and by the United States Senate to elect the vice president; under this amendment, only the election of ...
The deadlock and the drawn-out process prompted the creation of the 12th Amendment. Introduced by Congress in 1803, it marked a shift from the Constitution’s original Electoral College design.