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ARTICLE II
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a president of
the United States of America. He shall hold his
office during the term of four years, and, together
with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be
elected as follows.
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the
legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors,
equal to the whole number of senators and
representatives to which the state may be entitled in
the Congress: but no senator or representative, or
person holding an office of trust or profit under the
United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states,
and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at
least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state
with themselves. And they shall make a List of all
the Persons voted for, and of the number of votes for
each; which list they shall sign and certify, and
transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the
United States, directed to the president of the
senate. The president of the senate shall, in the
presence of the senate and house of representatives,
open all the certificates, and the votes shall then
be counted. The person having the greatest number of
votes shall be the president, if such number be a
majority of the whole number of electors appointed;
and if there be more than one who have such majority,
and have am equal number of electors appointed; and
if there be more than one who have such majority, and
have an equal number of votes, then the house of
representatives shall immediately choose by ballot
one of them for president; and if no person have a
majority, then from the five highest on the list the
said house shall in like manner choose the president.
But in choosing the president, the votes shall be
taken by states, the representation from each state
having one vote; a <« quorum »> for this purpose
shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds
of the states, and a majority of all the states shall
be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the
choice of the president, the person having the
greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the
vice-president. But if there should remain two or
more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose
from them by ballot the vice-president.
The Congress may determine the time of the choosing
the electors, and the day on which they shall give
their votes; which day shall be the same throughout
the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen
of the United States, at the time of the adoption of
this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of
president; neither shall any person be eligible to
that office who shall not have attained to the age of
thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident
within the United States.
In case of the removal of the president from office,
or his death, resignation, or inability to discharge
the powers and duties of the said office, the same
shall devolve on the vice-president, and the Congress
may by law provide for the case of removal, death,
resignation or inability, both of the president and
vice-president, declaring what officer shall then act
as president, and such officer shall act accordingly,
until the disability be removed, or a president be
elected.
The president shall, at stated times, receive for his
services, a compensation, which shall neither be
increased nor diminished during the period for which
he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive
within that period any other emolument from the
United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he
shall take the following <« oath or affirmation »>:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
faithfully execute the office of president of the
United States, and will to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the
United States."
Section 2. The president shall be commander in chief of the army
and navy of the United States, and of the militia of
the several States, when called into the actual
service of the United States; he may require the
opinion, in writing of the principal officer in each
of the executive departments, upon any subject
relating to the duties of their respective offices,
and he shall have power to grant <« reprieves »> and
pardons for offences against the United States,
except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided
two-thirds of the senators present concur; and he
shall nominate, and by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, judges of the
supreme court, and all other officers of the United
States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise
provided for, and which shall be established by law.
But the Congress may by law vest the appointment of
such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the
president alone, in the courts of law, or in the
heads of departments.
The president shall have power to fill up all
vacancies that may happen during the recess of the
senate, by granting commissions which shall expire
at the end of their session.
Section 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress
information of the state of the union, and recommend
to their consideration such measures as he shall
judge necessary and expedient; he may, on
extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or
either of them, and in case of disagreement between
them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may
adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper;
he shall receive ambassadors and other public
ministers; he shall take care that the laws be
faithfully executed, and shall commission all the
officers of the United States.
Section 4. The president, vice-president and all civil officers
of the United States, shall be removed from office on
impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery,
or other high crimes and misdemeanors.