in war, unless actually invaded, or in fuch imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

[Executive Power.]

ARTICLE

II.

[PRESIDENT.]

SECTION I.

HE Executive Power fhall be vefted in a Prefident

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of the United States of America. He fhall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice-Prefident, chofen for the fame term, be elected as follows.

Each State fhall appoint, in fuch a manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Reprefentatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Reprefentative, or perfon holding an office of truft or profit under the United States, fhall be appointed an elector.

The electors fhall meet in their refpective States, and vote by ballot for two perfons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the fame State with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the perfons voted for and of the number of votes for each; which lift they fhall fign and certify, and tranfmit fealed to the feat of government of the United States, directed to the Prefident of the Senate. The Prefident of the Senate fhall, in the prefence of the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives, open all the certificates, and the votes fhall then be counted. The perfon having the greatest number of

votes fhall be the Prefident, if fuch number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have fuch majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for Prefident; and if no perfon have a majority, then from the five higheft on the lift the faid House shall in like manner choose the Prefident. But in choosing the Prefident, the votes fhall be taken by States, the reprefentation 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 fhall be neceffary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the Prefident, the perfon having the greatest number of votes of the electors, fhall be the Vice-Prefident. But if there fhall remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate fhall choose from them by ballot the Vice-Prefident.

The Congress may determine the time of choofing the electors, and the day on which they fhall give their votes; which day fhall be the fame throughout the United States.

No perfon 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 Prefident; neither shall any perfon be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a refident within the United States,

In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the faid office, the fame fhall devolve on the Vice-Prefident, and the Congrefs may by VOL. IV.

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law provide for the cafe of removal, death, refignation or inability, both of the Prefident and Vice-Prefident, declaring what officer fhall then act as Prefident, and fuch officer fhall act accordingly, until the difability be removed, or a Prefident fhall be elected.

The Frefident fhall, at ftated times, receive for his fervices, a compenfation, which fhall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he fhall have been elected, and he fhall not receive within that period other emolument from the United States, or any them.

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Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:

"I do folemnly fwear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of Prefident of the United States, and will to the beft of my ability, preferve, protect and defend the Conftitution of the United States."

SECTION II.

The Prefident fhall be Commander in Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the feveral 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 fubject 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 cafes of impeachment.

He shall have power, by and with the advice and confent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators prefent concur; and he fhall nominate, and by and with the advice and confent of the Senate,

fhall

fhall appoint Ambaffadors, other public Ministers and Confuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whofe appointments are not herein otherwife provided for, and which fhall be established by law. But the Congrefs may by law vest the appointment of fuch inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The Prefident fhall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recefs of the Senate, by granting commiffions which fhall expire at the end of their next feffion.

He fhall from time to time give to the Congrefs information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their confideration fuch measures as he fhall judge neceffary and expedient: he may, on extraordinary occafions, convene both Houfes, or either of them, and in cafe of difagreement between them, with refpect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to fuch time as he fhall think proper; he fhall receive Ambasfadors and other public Minifters; he fhall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and fhall commiffion all the officers of the United States.

SECTION IV.

The Prefident, Vice-prefident, and all civil officers of the United States, fhall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treafon, bribery, or other high crimes and mifdemeanors.

ARTICLE III.

[Judiciary Power.]

SECTION I.

THE Judicial Power of the United States, fhall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such Inferior Courts as the Congrefs may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior Courts, fhall hold their offices during good behaviour, and fhall, at ftated times, receive for their fervices, a compenfation, which fhall not be diminished during their continuance in office,

SECTION II.

The Judicial Power shall extend to all cafes, in law and equity, arifing under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cafes affecting Ambaffadors, other public Minifters and Confuls; to all cafes of admiralty and maritime jurifdiction; to controverfies to which the United States fhall be a party; to controverfies between two or more States, between a ftate and citizens of another state, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a ftate, or the citizens thereof, and foreign ftates, citizens or fubjects.

In all cafes affecting Ambassadors, other public Minifters and Confuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court fall have original jurifdic

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