The Twelfth Amendment

"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.


The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.


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 Twelfth Amendment proposed that each candidate get their own ballot. The candidate with the most vote will become the president and the second most vote candidate will be vice president. The Twelfth Amendment provided some remedies:

• separate ballots are used for president and vice president
• the candidates with the greatest number of votes for each office will be elected if that number constitutes a majority of the total electors
• if a majority for the president is lacking, the House of Representatives shall vote by state from among the three highest candidates
• if a majority for the vice president is lacking, the Senate shall vote by state from among the two highest candidates
• the vice president must meet the same constitutional requirements as provided for the president.

The guy in the video is giving his opinion that Dick Cheney should be impeach; he claimed that he is not part of the executive branch, however according to Article 2 that the vice president is a member of the executive branch.

The Election of 1804 was significant because it leads to the Twelfth Amendment presidential electors were required to specify in their votes their choice for President and Vice President; previously, electors voted only for President, with the person who came in second becoming the Vice President. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) ran against Federalist Charles Pinckney. Thomas Jefferson won the election; George Mason was elected as Vice President.

In modern elections, a running mate is often selected in order to appeal to a different set of voters. A Habitation-Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush (alongside running-mate Dick Cheney) and Al Gore (alongside Joe Lieberman), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas, and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both. Bush's residency was unquestioned, as he was Governor of Texas at the time. Cheney and his wife had moved to Dallas five years earlier when he assumed the role of chief executive at Halliburton. Cheney grew up in Wyoming and had represented it in Congress. A few months before the election, he switched his voter registration and driver's license to Wyoming and put his home in Dallas up for sale. Three Texas voters challenged the election in a federal court in Dallas and then appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit where it was dismissed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution