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Q: Why did Henry Adams say that the Fifteenth Amendment was more remarkable for what it does not than for what it does contain?
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The last person to be elected under the 12th amendment was?

john quincey adams


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Thomas Jefferson was the first to be elected under this amendment in 1804 when he ran for a second term.


What did John Quincy Adams change in the US Constitution?

The President can not change the US Constitution. He can not propose amendments not does he approve or disprove proposals for amendments. (He could come out for or against a proposed amendment, but it would only be an opinion.) Not amendment were ratified or proposed by Congress while Adams was in office.


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Knowing that the country would not agree on abolishing slavery altogether, Adams proposed a constitutional amendment saying that no one could be born into slavery after 1845.


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