Under the Federal Reserve Act, each of the twelve Reserve Banks is separately incorporated with its own board of directors.
Problems with the original procedure arose in the elections of 1796 and 1800. The Twelfth Amendment refined the process whereby a President and a Vice President are elected by the Electoral College.The amendment was proposed by the Congress on December 9, 1803, and was ratified by the requisite threeâfourths of state legislatures on June 15, 1804.he Twelfth Amendment was proposed by the 8th Congress on December 9, 1803, when it was approved by the House of Representatives by vote of 83â42, having been previously passed by the Senate, 22â10, on December 2.
Citation: The House Joint Resolution proposing the 13th amendment to the Constitution, January 31, 1865; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives. How to use citation info.incoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.