Twelfth Amendment

Examples of Twelfth Amendment in the following topics:

• The 12th Amendment

  • The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President.
  • Bush (alongside running-mate Dick Cheney) and Al Gore (alongside Joe Lieberman), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.
  • Describe the changes the Twelfth Amendment brought to the procedure for electing the President and Vice-President

• The Election of 1824

  • The presidential election of 1824 is notable for being the only election since the passage of the Twelfth Amendment to have been decided by the House of Representatives.
  • The Twelfth Amendment, passed in 1804, addressed concerns that had arisen in the elections of 1796 and 1800 and stated that an election would be turned over to the House if no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote.
  • Because Jackson did not receive a majority vote from the Electoral College, the election was decided following the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, which stipulated that when a candidate did not receive a majority of electoral votes, the election went to the House of Representatives, where each state would provide one vote.
  • Following the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment, only the top three candidates in the electoral vote were admitted as candidates in the House: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William Harris Crawford.

• The Election of 1796

  • The ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S.
  • This system of balloting was not changed until the Twelfth Amendment (1804), which allowed for the notion of a running mate by stipulating separate balloting for president and vice president.
  • The 1796 election provided the impetus for the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S.

• Constitutional Limits

  • This section originally set the method of electing the President and Vice President, but this method has been superseded by the Twelfth Amendment.
  • More importantly, Section 2 grants and limits the president's appointment powers: "The president may make treaties, with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided two-thirds of the senators who are present agree;" "With the advice and consent of the Senate, the President may appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not otherwise described in the Constitution;" and "Congress may give the power to appoint lower officers to the President alone, to the courts, or to the heads of departments. " In addition, the Twenty-fifth Amendment limits the presidency to two terms .
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, page 1.

• The 23rd Amendment

  • The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President.
  • The 23rd Amendment would have been repealed by the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, which proposed to give the District full representation in the United States Congress, full representation in the Electoral College system, and full participation in the process by which the U.S.
  • A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • State the right extended to residents of the District of Columbia by the 23rd Amendment

• The 19th Amendment

  • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
  • The 19th Amendment recognized the right of American women to vote.

• The Second Amendment

  • The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
  • Ideals that helped to inspire the Second Amendment in part are symbolized by the minutemen.

• The First Amendment

  • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.
  • State the restrictions imposed upon the federal government and the rights accorded individuals by the 1st Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

  • The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
  • State the source of revenue made constitutional by the 16th Amendment

• A Comparison of Equal Temperament with the Harmonic Series

  • If you do not understand why it is the twelfth root of 2 rather than, say, one twelfth, please see the explanation below.
  • (The twelfth power of the twelfth root of two is simply two. ) All other intervals are given by irrational numbers based on the twelfth root of two, not nice numbers that can be written as a ratio of two small whole numbers.
  • Why is a cent the hundredth root of a semitone, and why is a semitone the twelfth root of an octave?
  • The ratios for equal temperament are all multiples of the twelfth root of two.
  • Only the octave (the twelfth power of the twelfth root) is a pure interval.