Originally the President was the person that won the most Electoral College votes and the Vice President was the person that won the second most Electoral College votes. Unfortunately this usually resulted in the President and Vice President being of different political parties and working toward opposite goals.
The Twelfth Amendment
The Twelfth Amendment declared that a single vote should be cast for both the president and vice president. Before this, it was possible for the president and vice president to be elected from different parties and they would be at odds with each other if each followed their party doctrine.
Originally the President was the person that won the most Electoral College votes and the Vice President was the person that won the second most Electoral College votes. Unfortunately this usually resulted in the President and Vice President being of different political parties and working toward opposite goals.
The 12th amendment to the US Constitution changed the method of the electing President to the way used today.
The 12th amendment
The Twelfth AmendmentThe Twelfth Amendment declared that a single vote should be cast for both the president and vice president. Before this, it was possible for the president and vice president to be elected from different parties and they would be at odds with each other if each followed their party doctrine.
The Twelfth AmendmentThe Twelfth Amendment declared that a single vote should be cast for both the president and vice president. Before this, it was possible for the president and vice president to be elected from different parties and they would be at odds with each other if each followed their party doctrine.
Originally the President was the person that won the most Electoral College votes and the Vice President was the person that won the second most Electoral College votes. Unfortunately this usually resulted in the President and Vice President being of different political parties and working toward opposite goals.
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The Twelfth Amendment
Mitt Romney.
He was running against Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan
No one ran against Washington. He was ceremoniously elected.
If you are talking about running for President of the United States, there is no law against a woman running. That might not apply to all countries of the world, though.
Hillary Clinton was running against John McCain & Barrack Obama, our new president, before she dropped out of the race.
John Quincy Adams was one of the ten U. S. Presidents who ran for President twice against the same major party candidate. In both 1824 and 1828, he was running against Andrew Jackson.