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U.S. Constitution. Article 2. Section 1.
Section 1.
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
votebyBallot 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 andcertify,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 SenateandHouse of Representatives, open all the
Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The
Personhaving the greatest Number of Votes shall be
the President, if such Number be a Majority of the
wholeNumber of Electors appointed; and if there be
more than one who have such Majority, and have an
equal Number of Votes,then theHouse 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 shallin 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 aMajority of all the Statesshallbe necessary toa C h oice.
In every Case, after the Choiceof 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.
The Congress may determinethe Time of chusing the
Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their
Votes; which Day shallbethe same throughout the
United States.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, ora Citizen
of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this
Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of
President;neithershall any person be eligible to that
Office who shallnot have attained to the Age of thirty
five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within
the United States.
In Case of theRemovalof 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 byLaw 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 forhis
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:--"Ido
solemnlyswear(or affirm) thatI willfaithfully execute
the Office of Presidentofthe United States, and will
to thebestofmy Ability, preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution ofthe United States."
