| Article II Section 1 |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
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| The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for |
| two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie 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 an equal Number of Votes, then the House of |
| Representatives shall immediately chuse 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 chuse the President. But in chusing 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 chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President. |
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| The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on |
| which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the |
| United States. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following |
| Oath or Affirmation: |
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| "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." |
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