 | Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne - 1819 - 122 pages
...person voted for as vice-president, but simply that they should give their votes for two persons ; that the one having the highest number of votes should be president, and the one having the next highest number should be vice-president. Now it had so happened that Mr. Jefferson... | |
 | James Herring - 1839 - 526 pages
...one voted for as vice president, but simply that they should give their votes for two persons ; that the one having the highest number of votes should be president, and the one having the next highest should be vice president. Now it so happened, that Mr. Jefferson and Mr.... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 290 pages
...of a provision in the Constitution, that two persons should be voted for by each elector, and that the one having the highest number of votes should be president, and the one next in number should be vicepresident.* That provision was found to work ill when, in 1800, two... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 286 pages
...of a provision in the Constitution, that two persons should be voted for by each elector, and that the one having the highest number of votes should be president, and the one next in number should be vicepresident.* That provision was found to work ill when, in 1800, two... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1879 - 380 pages
...called upon to take part. The first one was the celebrated case of Burr and Jefferson, which caused BO much danger and controversy, that an amendment to...highest vote at the time of their respective elections. In the summer of 1800, there would have been difficulty if the Federal ticket had been elected, for... | |
 | Herman Vandenburg Ames - 1897 - 454 pages
...necessary to elect, but in case of a tie Congress should decide.1 One of these proposed that the person having the highest number of votes should be President and the person having the next highest should be Vice-President, proba bly in the hope of restoring the original respect and regard for the... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1897 - 458 pages
...necessary to elect, but in case of a tie Congress should decide.1 One of these proposed that the person having the highest number of votes should be President and the person having the next highest should be Vice-President, proba\ blyin the hope of restoring the original respect and regard for. the... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1897 - 456 pages
...necessary to elect, but in case of a tie Congress should decide.1 One of these proposed that the person having the highest number of votes should be President and the person having the next highest should be Vice-President, proba bly in the hope of restoring the original respect and regard for the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1900 - 168 pages
...be equals, and so the Constitution provided that the electors should vote for two persons, and that the one having the highest number of votes should be President and the next in number the Vice-President. So John Adams was chosen as the first Vice-President, and subsequently... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1955 - 594 pages
...App., Nos. 1354, 1361. in ease of a tie Congress should decide." One of these proposed that the person having the highest number of votes should be President and the person having the next highest should be Vice President, probably in the hope of restoring the original respect and regard for the... | |
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BO much danger and controversy, that an amendment to the constitution was made, being the twelfth of the additional articles. In the original constitution it was provided that the electors should vote for two persons, and the one having the highest number... 