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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 four
teen 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.
The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither
be encreased 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 depart
ments, 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 im
peachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, pro
vided two-thirds of the senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the ad
vice and consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judg
es 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 next 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. They
may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagree
ment 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.
111.
Sect. 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in
such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges,
both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall,
at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their
continuance in office.
Sect. 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this con
stitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under
their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all
cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall
be a party; to controversies between two or more States, between a state and citizens of another
state, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same state claiming lands un
der grants of different States, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, ci
tizens or subjects .
In all cases affecting ambassadors; other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state
shall be party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact with such
exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be
held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed
within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have di
rected.
Sect. 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason
unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on consession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
IV.
Sect. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial
proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in
which such acts records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
Sect. 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in
the several states.
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice,
and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which
he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
No person held to service or labour in one state; under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall,
in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall
be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due.
Sect. 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new state shall be
formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the juncti
on of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states con
cerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting
the territo ry or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution
shall be construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.
Sect. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a Republican form of go
vernment, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or
of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
V.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amend
ments to this constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states,
shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents
and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratifi
cation may be proposed by the Congress; Provided, that no amendment which may be made prior
to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner, affect the first and fourth
clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be depri
ved of its equal suffrage in the senate.
VI.
All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall
be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation.
This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof;
and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be
the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in
the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.