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Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, which established the Electoral College, provided that each state appoint electors equal to the total number of House and Senate members in their state and that the electors shall vote for two persons.
The presidential candidate who received the most electoral votes won the presidency; the runner-up became the vice president. In , this meant that the president and the vice president were from different parties and had different political views, making governance more difficult. The adoption of Amendment XII solved this problem by allowing each party to nominate their team for president and vice president.
The inhabitant clause of the Twelfth Amendment also suggests strongly that the president and vice president should not be from the same state. Although the provision does not directly disqualify a vice president who is from the same state as the president, the provision disqualifies the electors from that state from voting for both offices.
Prior to the election, both presidential candidate George W. Speaker of the House Henry Clay had 37 and expected to use his influence in the House to win election.
But the 12th Amendment required the House to consider only the top-three vote-getters when no one commands an overall majority. The House chose Adams over Jackson. Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before? The contested presidential election between Republican Rutherford B.
Hayes of Ohio and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of New York was the last to require congressional intervention. Tilden won the popular vote and the electoral count. But Republicans challenged the results in three Southern states, which submitted certificates of election for both candidates. While the Constitution requires the House and Senate to formally count the certificates of election in joint session, it is silent on what Congress should do to resolve disputes.
The bipartisan commission, which included Representatives, Senators, and Supreme Court Justices, voted along party lines to award all the contested ballots to Hayes—securing the presidency for him by a single electoral vote. Ackerman, Bruce. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, Berns, Walter, ed.
Washington: AEI Press, Ceaser, James. Presidential Selection. Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of
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