<span>The fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Wake Island.</span><span>
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The twelfth amendment to the constitution was added in 1804 in response to the 1800 presidential election. This amendment was meant to break a tie in the presidential election as was witnessed when Thomas Jefferson, a presidential candidate received the same number of electoral votes as Aaron Burr, the vice presidential candidate.
Thomas Hobbes was exiled from is home country and remained there for 11 years.
