Passed by Congress December 9, 1803. Ratified June 15, 1804. Note: A portion of Article II, section 1 of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment. The Electors shall meet in their ...

Amelia Golini, Brooklyn, New York That was in 1804, when the 12th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, says David Ward, senior historian at the National Portrait Gallery. The amendment was ...

The 12th Amendment preceded the 22nd by well over ... This amendment was introduced by federal legislators in 1803 and ratified about six months later, in 1804, taking effect in time for the ...

Editor: Your April 1 editorial makes a claim about the 12th amendment that isn’t true to the literal text when it claims that those ineligible to run for president may not seek the vice ...

Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23, 1933. Note: Article I, section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th amendment ...

However, this potential loophole is invalidated by the 12th Amendment redefining the procedure to elect the president and vice president, experts said. This earlier amendment, ratified in 1804, ...

In yet another act of collective idiocy, the American Bar Association on Tuesday adopted a resolution that maintains that the Equal Rights Amendment proposed by Congress in 1972 has been ratified ...

In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...