Question

The Election of 1824

(The Corrupt Bargain)
6) Why was this section of the Twelfth Amendment relevant in the election of 1824?

Answer 1

In the 1824 election, without an absolute majority in the Electoral College, the 12th Amendment dictated that the Presidential election be sent to the House of Representatives, whose Speaker and candidate in his own right, Henry Clay, gave his support to John Quincy Adams, and was then selected to be his Secretary of ...