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The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Ratified 1804.  This amendment fixed a problem discovered in the Electoral College in the election of 1800, when the presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson received the same number of votes as the vice presidential candidate Aaron Burr, forcing the House of Representatives to select the President.

This amendment was ratified in 1804.  This amendment fixed a problem discovered in the Electoral College in the election of 1800, when the presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson received the same number of votes as the vice presidential candidate Aaron Burr, forcing the House of Representatives to select the President.  There would not be another amendment to the Constitution until after the Civil War.