The congressional caucus method was employed from 1800 to 1824. In the elections of 1800, the Republican congressional caucus ran for Jefferson and was finally able to reach consensus on the name of the candidate to accompany Vice-President, who was Aaron Burr. Federal Member of Congress met in caucus in the Senate and re-nominated incumbent President John Adams. The elections were won much by Jefferson's Republicans, but in the electoral college there was a stalemate unique in the history of the United States.
The great Republican voters tried to reach an agreement to miss a single vote in Burr, in order to elect Jefferson president and Burr vice president. Due to a misunderstanding, however, the plan failed. Jefferson and Burr received exactly the same number of votes. The Constitution did not provide a mechanism to distinguish even the election of the president election of the vice president. In the case of two candidates of equal merit, as in the case where no candidate obtained an absolute majority, the decision was deferred to the House of Representatives.
However, the House of Representatives was a federalist majority. With the sole purpose of stopping Jefferson, the Federalists tried to win Burr. Burr had never had ambitions for the presidency and, as president, was not acceptable even to the Jeffersonian. The situation was unblocked after a week of stalemate, especially the intervention of Hamilton, Jefferson believed that the candidate less damaging to the country. At the 36th vote was finally elected Jefferson president. To avoid the recurrence of a situation like that, it was ratified in 1804, the twelfth amendment to the Constitution. It provides that the Electoral College vote for president and vice president separately.
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