Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-01
ARTICLE II.
SECTION /.

I The executive power shall be vested in a Presi-
of the Confederate States of America He and the
Vice President shall hold their offices for the term O
six years. but the President shall not be reegible-
sideni and Vice President shall be elected as
follows:
D Each Ssate shall appoint, in such manner as the
legislature thereof may direct, number OF electors
equal the whole number of Senators and Represen
tatves which the State may De emitted IN the Con
gress; but Senator or Representative or person
holding an Office of trust profit under the COneder
ate States, shall be appointed all eector.
g. The electors shall in their respective States
and vote by ballot for President and Vice President
one of whom al least shall not be AN inhabitant of
the same State with themselves; they shall in
their ballots the person voted for as Paesden and IN
distinct ballots the person voted for as President,
and they shall make distinct lists of all pereOns voted
for as President, and of all persons voted for Vice
President of the numbt of for each, which
list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed,
to the government of the Confederate States directed
to 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
vote shall then be counted; the person haying the
greatest number of votes for President shall be the
President if such number be a msjority of the whole
number of electors appointed; and if no person have
such majority, then, from the persons having the
highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list OF
those voted for President, the House of Represen
tatves shall choose Immediately, by ballot the Pres
dent But in choosing the President the vote shall be
taken by States, the representation from each state
having one vote; quorum for this purpose shall
sist of a member or members from wothirds of the
sary TO choice. And if the House of Representatives
shall not choose President, whenever the right of
choice shall devOlve upon them before the fourth day
of March next following, then the Vice President shall
act as President in of the death other
stitutional disability Of the President
L. The person having the greatest number OF votes
as Vice President shall be the Vice President such
number be majority OF the whole number of elect
appointed: and if person have majority, then,
from the two highest numbers the list the Senate
shall choose the Vice President; quorum for the pur-
pose shall of two-thirds of the whole number
of Senators, and majority of the whole number shall
b1 necessary a choice.
s. No person constitutonally Ineligible the office
of President shall eligible that Of Vice President
of the Confederate States
a The Congress may determine the time Of choosing
the electors and the day which they shall give their
votes; which day shall be the same throughout the
Confederate States
l. No person except natural born citizen of the
Confederate States, citizen thereof the time of
the adoption OF the Constitution citizen thereof
born in the United States prior the 10th
ber, l860 shall be eligible the Office of President;
neither shall any person be eligible To that Office who
shall not have attained the age of thirty i've years
and been fourteen years resident within the limits
of the Confederate States, they may exist the
time Of his election -
s. In case of the removal OF the President from Of
fee, Of his death, resignation, inability to dis
charge the and duties of the said Office, the
same shall develye the Vice PRESIDENT and the Con
gress may, by law, provide for the case of removal
death, resignation inability both of the President
and Vice President declaring what officer shall then
act President and such officer shall act accordingly
until the disability be removed President shall b.
| elected
9. The President shall, at stated times receive fo
his services compensation which shall neither be in
creased nor diminished during the period tor which b
shall have been elected and he shall not receive with
IN that period any other emolument from the Confed
crate States, or any of them.
TO- Before he eaters on the execution OF his ONCE
he shall take the following oath or sirmat,on
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fully execute the Office Of President OF the
Sfates and wi 90 the best Of my ability Pfes1fse
protect and defend the Constitution tnefsoa