between the States. No preference shall be given by any regulation of Commerce commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. drawn from No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but Money, how in consequence of appropriations made by law; and Treasury. a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published To be pubfrom time to time. lished. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United No nobility. States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, Foreign preor title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, tles. or foreign State. sents and ti 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. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or 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. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war Powers de- nied to the Other pow. ers denied to States. Further deers to States. nial of pow. 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. President Electors, how ap. pointed. Electors to meet and to dent and Vice President. SECTION I. 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, elect a Presi- 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 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, Their votes counted in Congress. tives to choose if Electors fail. Votes by and have an equal number of votes, then the House Representaof 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 States. State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from twothirds 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 Vice Presi 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.* dent. and meeting The Congress may determine the time of choosing Election the electors, and the day on which they shall give of electors. their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States. tions of Pre No person except a natural born citizen, or a citi- Qualificazen of the United States, at the time of the adoption sident. 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 thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. of death, &c. of In case of the removal of the President from office, Removal, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge President. 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 *This clause of the constitution has been amended. See 12th article of the Amendments, page 33. Compensation of Presi. dent. Oath. 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 his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased or 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." Powers and duties of the President. SECTION II. 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 coninent of pub. sent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other ministers and consuls, judges of the supreme court, Appoint lic officers. 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 depart ments. up all va Vacancies in office. The President shall have power to fill cancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. SECTION III. powers and duties of the President. He shall from time to time give to the Congress Further 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 IV. ment. The President, Vice-President and all civil officers Impeachof the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours. |