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The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution replaced Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, which pertained to Presidential elections. That clause had stated that each member of the U.S. Electoral College would cast two votes for the President, with the person receiving a majority of the Electoral Votes becoming the President and the runner-up becoming the Vice President. Problems with this system were demonstrated by the elections of 1796 and 1800. The Twelfth Amendment, proposed by the U.S. Congress on December 9, 1803 and ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures on June 15, 1804, required electors to cast two distinct votes: one for President and another for Vice President

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