* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Under the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, the presidential election fell to the House of Representatives, which was to choose from the top three candidates: Jackson, Adams, and Crawford.

* 1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.

Scholars disagree whether anyone no longer eligible to be elected president could be elected vice president, pursuant to the qualifications set out under the Twelfth Amendment.

* The Twelfth Amendment ( 1804 ) requires the Vice-President must meet all of the qualifications of being a President.

The Twelfth Amendment ( Amendment XII ) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President.

The Twelfth Amendment was proposed by the Congress on December 9, 1803, and was ratified by the required number of state legislatures on June 15, 1804.

In having the President and Vice President elected as a ticket, the Twelfth Amendment eliminated this possibility, or at least minimized it by lessening the Vice President's motivation for staging such a coup .< div style =" clear: right ;">< div >

Twelfth Amendment in the National Archives and Records Administration | National Archives

The Twelfth Amendment changed the process whereby a President and a Vice President are elected.

Under the Twelfth Amendment, each elector must cast distinct votes for President and Vice President, instead of two votes for President.

The Twelfth Amendment explicitly precluded those constitutionally ineligible to be President from being Vice President.

The Twelfth Amendment requires the House to choose from the three highest receivers of electoral votes, compared to five under the original procedure.

The Twelfth Amendment introduced a quorum requirement of two-thirds for the conduct of balloting.

Furthermore, the Twelfth Amendment provides that the votes of " a majority of the whole number " of Senators are required to arrive at a choice.

In order to prevent deadlocks from keeping the nation leaderless, the Twelfth Amendment provided that if the House could not choose a President before March 4 ( at that time the first day of a Presidential term ), the individual elected Vice President would act as President, " as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.

" The Twelfth Amendment did not state for how long the Vice President would act as President or if the House could still choose a President after March 4.

Section 3 of the Twentieth Amendment replaced that provision of the Twelfth Amendment by changing the date for the commencement of Presidential terms to January 20, clarifying that the Vice President-elect would only act as President if the House has not chosen a President by January 20, and permitting the Congress to direct, through legislation, " who shall then act as President " if there is no President-elect or Vice President-elect by January 20.

Starting with the election of 1804, each Presidential election has been conducted under the Twelfth Amendment.

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush ( alongside running-mate Dick Cheney ) and Al Gore ( alongside Joe Lieberman ), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

The Congress proposed the Twelfth Amendment on December 9, 1803, and the following states ratified the amendment:

* Twelfth Amendment, via National Archives

* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twelfth Amendment, via Cornell Law School

* June 15 – The Twelfth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution is ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective ( subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New Hampshire ).

* July 27 – The Twelfth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption.

To rectify the flaw in the original presidential election mechanism, the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, was added to the United States Constitution, stipulating that electors make a discrete choice between their selections for president and vice-president.

There is a point of contention regarding the interpretation of the Twenty-second Amendment as it relates to the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, which provides that " no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.

* June 15, 1804: Twelfth Amendment was ratified by the states.

The first ten ( the Bill of Rights ) were adopted in 1791, the Eleventh Amendment in 1795 and the Twelfth Amendment in 1804.

This tumultuous affair led to the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804, which directed the electors to use separate ballots to vote for the President and Vice President.

Until the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution of 1804, the runner-up in a Presidential election became the Vice President.

When this system proved unwieldy, the Twelfth Amendment was passed in 1804 providing that the President and Vice-President run on the same ticket but be elected on different ballots.

* 1704 5 September – Troops of France and Spain under the marquis of Villadarias, General Captain of Andalusia, started to besiege Gibraltar to try to recover it ( this one would be the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ).

This election would provide the impetus for the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In March 1998, President McAleese announced that she would officially celebrate the Twelfth of July as well as Saint Patrick's Day, recognising the day's importance among Ulster Protestants.

A third proposal, the proposed Twelfth Amendment, would have defined when abortions could be considered legal, but was defeated.

O ' Ferrall would oversee numerous productions of Shakespeare over the course of 1937 ; a ten minute excerpt from Mark Antony's funeral speech in Julius Caesar, starring Henry Oscar ( 11 February ); a ten minute excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing with Henry Oscar as Benedick and Margaretta Scott as Beatrice ( also 11 February ); a twenty-five minute extract from Macbeth, with Henry Oscar as Macbeth and Margaret Rawlings as Lady Macbeth ( 25 March ); a thirty-minute extract from Twelfth Night, with John Wyse as Orsino and Greer Garson as Olivia ( 14 May ); and a sixty-seven minute extract from Othello starring Baliol Holloway as Othello, D. A.

Mann's own version of Sequences, debuted at Reading, would soon become a live staple and, ultimately, perhaps the best-loved Twelfth Night song.

By July, it had been confirmed that they would be billed as Twelfth Night, and in September, a 2nd gig was added and both Andy Revell and Brian Devoil were revealed as part of the line-up, with Mark Spencer ( formerly the vocalist in 80s prog band LaHost, Andy Sears ' one time flatmate, and an old friend of the band ) replacing Rick Battersby.

As the Burma campaign came to an end Slim was informed in May by Oliver Leese, the commander of Allied Land Forces South-East Asia ( ALFSEA ) that he would not be commanding Fourteenth Army in the forthcoming invasion planned for Malaya but would take command of the new Twelfth Army being formed to mop up in Burma.

The knowledge (‘ Ilm ) given to the Imams by God had to be protected and the truth would have to be hidden before the uninitiated or their adversaries until the coming of the Twelfth Imam, when this knowledge and ultimate meaning can become known to everyone.

Making the wreaths was one of the traditions of Christmas Eve ; they would remain hung on each home's front door beginning on Christmas Night ( 1st night of Christmas ) through Twelfth Night or Epiphany morning.

Except in the north and south ends of the island, the avenues would begin with First Avenue on the east side and run through Twelfth Avenue in the west.

Sometime during the Twelve Days of Christmas, usually on the night of the " Old Twelfth " ( 17 January ; equivalent to 6 Jan in the old Julian calendar ), people would disguise themselves with old articles of clothing and visit the homes of their friends and neighbours.

The Western Allies attempted to convince the Germans that their main effort during 1943 would be to land the Twelfth Army in Greece and then advance into the eastern Balkans during the early part of the summer of 1943 with the aim of bringing Turkey into the war and then linking up with the Soviet Red Army.

On Plough Tuesday, the day after Plough Monday ( the first Monday after Twelfth Night ), a man or boy was covered from head to foot in straw and led from house to house where he would dance in exchange for gifts of money, food or beer.

") The Twelfth is also unlike its other direct ancestor, the experimental Second Symphony, in being extremely traditional, with the fast opening movement laid out along academically correct lines that Myaskovsky or his teacher Glazunov would have followed.

Again, the tree would be taken down on Twelfth Night, and such fruits, along with nuts and other local produce used, would then be consumed.

In parts of Kent, there is a tradition that an edible decoration would be the last part of Christmas to be removed in the Twelfth Night and shared amongst the family.

The actual Elizabethan festival of Twelfth Night would involve the antics of a Lord of Misrule, who before leaving his temporary position of authority, would call for entertainment, songs and mummery ; the play has been regarded as preserving this festive and traditional atmosphere of licensed disorder.