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U.S. Constitution (Article II)
Article II.
Sect. 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."
Sect. 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.
Sect. 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.
Sect. 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.