In accordance with the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives intervenes to decide the winner of the 1824 Presidential Election. Andrew Jackson had won a plurality of the electoral college, but John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry Clay had won enough votes to deny Jackson a majority.
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