As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA," is now available on SSRN. The paper lays out new historical evidence on prior Article V amendments ...
If no candidate wins a majority, the House selects the president from the top three candidates by majority ballot vote, according to the 12th Amendment. Each state delegation gets one vote ...
Hence, they proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution, 10 of which were ratified as the Bill of Rights. Part of the workable compromise between these two sets of patriots resulted in the ...