The amicus also has history about the Twelfth Amendment, which went
into effect in 1804 and which specified that every elector should vote
separately for president and vice-president. Previously all electors
merely cast two votes, and whoever got the second highest number of
electoral votes nationwide became vice-president. Some opponents of
elector freedom have argued that the Twelfth Amendment ended elector
independence. But Foley shows that the Twelfth Amendment passed in
Congress without a single vote to spare, and it only passed because its
backers assured everyone that the amendment did not change anything
except to provide for separate ballots for president and vice-president.
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Seems like I saw this episode of Boston Legal years ago...
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