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.
The Fourteenth Amendment was one of three amendments to the Constitution adopted after the Civil War to guarantee black rights.The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, the Fourteenth granted citizenship to people once enslaved, and the Fifteenth guaranteed black men the right to vote.The Fourteenth Amendment was passed by Congress in June 1866 and ratified by the states in 1868.The Radical Republicans had been battling with Andrew Johnson for control of Reconstruction. Johnson was in favor of leaving the future of black people in the hands of white Southerners.he Fourteenth Amendment was one of three amendments to the Constitution adopted after the Civil War to guarantee black rights.