Question: In 2018, when do we vote for the body given authority to choose the president in 1824 by the document in which Stewart could not find Wall of Separation?

the election exposed one of the flaws in the original constitution of the united states. members of the electoral college were authorized by the original constitution to vote for two names for president, theoretically one for the preferred president and one for the preferred vice president but in fact counted up into the same ballot, enabling the possibility that a vice presidential candidate could be elected president. (the two - vote ballot was created in order to try to maximize the possibility that one candidate received votes from a majority of the electors nationwide; the drafters of the constitution had not anticipated the rise of organized political parties, which made it much easier to attain a nationwide majority.) the candidate with the most electoral votes would become president and the candidate with the second most would become vice president. the democratic - republicans had planned for one of the electors to abstain from casting his second vote for aaron burr, which would have led to jefferson receiving one electoral vote more than burr, making jefferson president and burr vice president. the plan, however, was mishandled. each elector who voted for jefferson also voted for burr, resulting in a tied electoral vote. the election was then put into the hands of the outgoing house of representatives, which, after 35 votes in which neither jefferson nor burr obtained a majority, elected jefferson on the 36th ballot. <SEP> The United States presidential election of 1824 was the tenth quadrennial presidential election, held from Tuesday, October 26, to Thursday, December 2, 1824. On February 9, 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as president. The 1824 presidential election was the first election in which the winner of the election lost the popular vote. In an election contested by four members of the Democratic - Republican Party, no candidate won a majority of the electoral vote, necessitating a contingent election in the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. <SEP> the authority and responsibilities of the president was similar to that of the president of the united states: to serve the people of texas, and to serve as the head of the military and the state. these were detailed in the constitution of the republic of texas of 1836. the constitution specified a term of two years for the first elected president (sam houston) and terms of three years thereafter; the president could not succeed himself, but there were otherwise no term limits. the president was elected separately from the vice president, by popular vote, and there was no requirement to be native - born. a strict reading of the constitution provided for women's suffrage (that is, both men and women were citizens and could vote for congress, president, and other offices), but women and preachers or priests were not allowed to serve as president or in congress. indians and africans and those of african descent could not be citizens. <SEP> All these races, regardless if it is for a federal, state, or local office, are being administered by the individual state and local governments instead of at the national or federal level. These midterm elections will take place in the middle of Republican President Donald Trump's first term. 2018 elections in the United States will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, except for certain special elections. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested. In addition, 39 state and territorial governorships as well as numerous other state and local elections will also be contested. <SEP> The court noted that it "is a matter of history that this very practice of establishing governmentally composed prayers for religious services was one of the reasons which caused many of our early colonists to leave England and seek religious freedom in America." The lone dissenter, Justice Potter Stewart, objected to the court's embrace of the "wall of separation" metaphor: "I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the "wall of separation," a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution."