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 ...

The 12th Amendment provides that, in the counting of electoral votes, the president of the Senate (the vice president) shall “in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives ...

Trump teased a constitutionally-prohibited 2028 run for the White House, saying someone told him "I don't think you can" run again.

Whether the Equal Rights Amendment is—right now—part of the ... but also in those proposing the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language that modified the ...

Passed by Congress December 9, 1803. Ratified June 15, 1804. Note: A portion of Article II, section 1 of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment. The Electors shall meet in their ...

Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23, 1933. Note: Article I, section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th amendment ...

On the surface, this seems like the answer is no, they can’t. The last line of the 12th Amendment says, “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible ...