Question: Who is the majority whip in the governing body given authority under the document the phrase "Wall of separation" was not found in to choose the president in 1824?

the election of president and vice president of the united states is an indirect election in which citizens of the united states who are registered to vote in one of the 50 u.s. states or in washington, d.c. cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the u.s. electoral college, known as electors. these electors then in turn cast direct votes, known as electoral votes, for president, and for vice president. the candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes (at least 270 out of a total of 538, since the twenty - third amendment granting voting rights to citizens of washington, d.c.) is then elected to that office. if no candidate receives an absolute majority of the votes for president, the house of representatives chooses the winner; if no one receives an absolute majority of the votes for vice president, then the senate chooses the winner. <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 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." 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." <SEP> the phrase "[a] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" was first used by baptist theologian roger williams, the founder of the colony of rhode island, in his 1644 book the bloody tenent of persecution. the phrase was later used by thomas jefferson as a description of the first amendment and its restriction on the legislative branch of the federal government, in an 1802 letter to the danbury baptists (a religious minority concerned about the dominant position of the congregationalist church in connecticut): <SEP> Party leaders and whips of the United States House of Representatives, also known as floor leaders, are elected by their respective parties in a closed - door caucus by secret ballot. With the Republicans holding a majority of seats and the Democrats holding a minority, the current leaders are: Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer.