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No title of nobility shall be granted by the No nobility. United States: and no person holding any office

of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Foreign pres "ents and titles. emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.

SECTION X.

No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal: coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

Powers denied to the states.

Other powers

denied to

No State shall, without the consent of the Con-O gress, lay any imposts or duties on imports orstates. exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.

states.

No State shall, without the consent of the Con-Further denial gress, lay any duty of tonage, keep troops, or ships of powers to of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State. or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

ARTICLE II.

SECTION I.

The Executive power shall be vested in a Pre-President U.S. sident of the United States of America. He

Electors, how

appointed.

Electors to meet and to

elect a presi

dent and vice president.

Thoir votes counted in congress.

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

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 themelves. 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. 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 an equal number of votes, then the Representa- House of Representatives shall immediately if electors fall. 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

tives to choose

Votes by states.

to a choice.

dent.

In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number Vice Presi 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.*

meeting

The Congress may determine the time of choos-Election and ing the electors, and the day on which they shall electors. give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.

of president.

No person except a natural born citizen, or a Qualifications 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 eligibe to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United Sates.

In case of the removal of the President from Removal, death &c. of presioffice, or of his death, resignation or inability todent. 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 shall be elected.

The President shall, at stated times, receive for Compensation of président. 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 enters on the execution of his office, Oath. he shall take the following oath or affirmation:"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will

*This clause of the Constitution has been amended. See twelfth article of amendments, page 27.

;

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 II.

Powers and

president.

The President shall be Commander-in-chief duties of the 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.

of public offi

cers.

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; Appointment 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.

Vacancies in office.

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 next session.

Further powers

and duties of

SECTION III.

He shall, from time to time, give to the Congress the president. information of the state of the Union, and recom

mend to their consideration, such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, or 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 IV.

The President, Vice-President, and all civil of-Impeachment. ficers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misde

meanors.

ARTCLE III.

SECTION I.

The Judicial power of the United States, shallJudiciary, and be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such in-tenure of judges. ferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior; and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.

SECTION II.

The Judicial power shall extend to all cases in Powers of the law and equity, arising under this Constitution," the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public min

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