IV.  Amerika.  1356  193.  Ver.  St.  v.  Am.

No  State  shall,  without  the  consent  of  Congress,  lay  any  duty  of  tonnage,  keep
troops,  or  ships  of  war  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  I.

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  had  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
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.

Wu  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