The Origins of the Twelfth Amendment: The Electoral College in the Early Republic, 1787-1804

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Greenwood Press, 1994 - Constitutional amendments - 235 pages
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This work provides the first in-depth study of the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution from the larger perspective of the development of the electoral college. Too often viewed as a modest reform to prevent the recurrence of the 1800-1801 election crisis, the Twelfth Amendment, according to Kuroda, was actually the decisive step in the evolution of the modern electoral college. Significantly, the amendment implicitly recognized the existence of national political parties and allowed the party which won the most electoral votes to win the offices of President and Vice President. But it was also significant for what it did not do: it did not abolish presidential electors; did not prohibit a winner-take-all electoral system; and did not mandate district election of electors.

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Contents

Ratification of the Twelfth Amendment
155
Epilogue
171
Select Bibliography
221

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About the author (1994)

TADAHISA KURODA is Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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TitleThe Origins of the Twelfth Amendment: The Electoral College in the Early Republic, 1787-1804
Issue 344 of Contributions in political science, ISSN 0147-1066
Volume 344 of Recent Titles in contributions in Political Science
AuthorTadahisa Kuroda
Editionillustrated
PublisherGreenwood Press, 1994
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 14, 2008
ISBN0313291519, 9780313291517
Length235 pages
  
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