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The election of 1800 led to the creation of the 12th amendment because based on the way it was originally written, there was no clear way written of who won the electoral college and it took 36 votes for the presidency which meant the electoral colleges had to be changed.In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership.
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