10.)Use the following text from the Twelfth Amendment to answer the following question:
The person having the greatest Number of votes for president, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of whole number of Electors appointed; & if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as president, the House of representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president.
In what way was the Twelfth Amendment important in the election of 1824?
A.)No presidential candidate has received the majority of Electoral College votes.
B.)Some states had illegally appointed their electoral College.
C.)The House of Representatives had not yet been elected for that year.
D.)The Speaker of the House was also a presidential candidate at the time.***
D?
No. That is true, but why did the House have to decide the election?
And your answer below about Gibbons v. Ogden is not correct. You and Ms. Sue are mistaken:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons_v._Ogden
Is #10 A? & #9 A?
#10 is A. I'll recheck #9 and answer below at the question.
The correct answer is A) No presidential candidate has received the majority of Electoral College votes.
To arrive at this answer, we need to analyze the given text from the Twelfth Amendment. According to the amendment, if no person receives a majority of the Electoral College votes, then the House of Representatives chooses the president from the top three candidates who received the highest numbers of votes.
In the election of 1824, none of the presidential candidates received a majority of the Electoral College votes. As a result, the election was ultimately decided by the House of Representatives, as described in the Twelfth Amendment. Therefore, option A is the correct answer.
Options B, C, and D are not directly mentioned or implied in the given text, so they can be eliminated as incorrect options.