The 12th amendment was proposed by Congress
on December 9th 1803, and was ratified on June 15th,
1804. Previous to the 12th amendment, two ballots
were casted, each of them for a running President.
The person who received the highest number of votes
became President and the person that received the
second highest number of votes became Vice
President. This amendment separated the ballots so
that instead of voting for a President with two ballots.
Voters would instead vote for a President and a Vice
President.
This amendment still affects the country today
because it insures that we as a country will have a
President and a Vice President of the same Party.
The 12th amendment was mainly proposed due to
the complications of the election of 1800. When
Thomas Jefferson President, and Aaron Burr Vice
President were both elected, they clashed because of
the different backrounds of parties that they had
come from.
Mainly the argument for the amendment was that
party members didn’t want a President and Vice
President from two different party’s to be elected
because it created conflicts between them.