Section 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 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 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 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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