Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES
Continued from last weekly
ARTICLE III.

be vested in q 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 Rep
resentatives to which the State may be
entitled in the Congress: but no Sen
ator or Representative, or Person hold
ing an Office of Trust or Profit under
the United States, shall be appointed
an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their re-
spective 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 Gov
eminent 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 Certifi-
Gates, and the Votes shall then be
counted. The Person having the great
est Number of Votes shall be the Presi-
dent, if such Number be Majority of
the whole Number of Electors appoint
ed; 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 chuse
by Ballet one of them for President;
and if no Person have Majority, then
from the five highest on the List the
said House shall in 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 Men,
Der or Members from two thirds Of the
States and Majority of all the States
shall be necessary to a Choice. In
every Case, after the Choice Of the
President, the Person having the great
est 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 determine the
Time of chusing 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 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 Presi-
dent from Office, or of his Death, Resig-
nation, 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 re-
moved, or a President shall be elected.
The President SHALL at stated Times,
receive for his Services, COmpensa-
ton, which shall neither be INCREASED
nor diminished during the Period for
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 II do solemnly
swear Tor 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 de-
fend the Constitution Of the United
States"
Section 2. The President shall be
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 De-
partments. upcn any Subject relating
to the Duties Of their respective Of
fees, and he shall have Power to grant
Repreves and PardonS for Offences
against the United States, except in
Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with
the Advice and Consent of the Senate
to make Treaties. provided two thirds
of the Senators present concur: and he
shall nominate, and by and with the
Advice and Consent of the Senate. shall
appoint Ambassadors, other public Min
listers and ConSuls, Judges of the SUI
preme Court, and all other officers of the
United States. whose Appointments are
not herein otherwise provided for. anC
which shall be established by Law: but
the Congress may by Law vest the APP
pointment 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 tc
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