shall give their Votes; which 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 Ofce of President; neither shall any Person be
eligible to that Ofce who shall not have attained
to the Age of thirty ve Years, and been fourteen
Years a Resident within the United States.
[In Case of the Removal of the President from
Ofce, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to
discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Ofce,
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 Ofcer shall then act as President, and such
Ofcer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be
removed, or a President shall be elected.]
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The President shall, at stated Times, receive for
his 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 Ofce,
he shall take the following Oath or Afrmation:—”I
do solemnly swear (or afrm) that I will faithfully
execute the Ofce of President of the United States,
and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
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Changed by the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
Section. 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
Ofcer in each of the executive Departments, upon
any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective
Ofces, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves
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 Ministers and Consuls,
Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Ofcers
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 Ofcers, 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 ll 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.
Section. 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; he may, on extraordinary Occasions,
convene both Houses, or either of them, and in