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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.
    \3\ 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 to 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 chuse 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 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 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 have equal Votes, 
the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.\8\
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\8\ This clause has been superseded by amendment XII.
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    \4\ 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.
    \5\ 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.
    \6\ 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,\9\ 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.
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\9\ This clause has been affected by amendment XXV.
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    \7\ 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.
    \8\ 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.''
    Section. 2. \1\ 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 Departments, 
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 
Impeachment.
    \2\ 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 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.
    \3\ 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.
    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 Case of Disagreement 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.
    Section. 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.

                             Article. III.

    Section. 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.
    Section. 2. \1\ The judicial Power shall extend to all 
Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, 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 the United States will be a party;--to Controversies 
between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of 
another State;\10\ --between Citizens of different States,--
between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants 
of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens 
thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
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\10\ This clause has been affected by amendment XI.
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    \2\ 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.
    \3\ 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 directed.
    Section. 3. \1\ 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 Confession in open Court.
    \2\ 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.

                              Article. IV.

    Section. 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.
    Section. 2. \1\ The Citizens of each State shall be 
entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the 
several States.
    \2\ 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.
    \3\ 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.\11\
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    \11\ This clause has been affected by amendment XIII.
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    Section. 3. \1\ 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 Junction of two or more States, or Parts of 
States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States 
concerned as well as of the Congress.
    \2\ The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make 
all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or 
other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in 
this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any 
Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
    Section. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every 
State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, 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.

                              Article. V.

    The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem 
it necessary, shall propose Amendments 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 Ratification 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 deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

                              Article. VI.

    \1\ 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.
    \2\ 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.
    \3\ The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and 
the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all 
executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and 
of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, 
to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever 
be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust 
under the United States.

                             Article. VII.

    The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall 
be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution 
between the States so ratifying the Same.

done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States 
        present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of 
        our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven 
        and of the Independence of the United States of America 
        theTwelfth  In witness whereof We have hereunto 
subscribed our Names,

             G<SUP>O</SUP>. WASHINGTON--Presid<SUP>t</SUP>.
                                               and deputy from Virginia

            [Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

Delaware

  Geo: Read
  Gunning Bedford jun
  John Dickinson
  Richard Bassett
  Jaco: Broom

Maryland

  James M<SUP>c</SUP>Henry
  Dan of S<SUP>T</SUP> Tho<SUP>S</SUP> Jenifer
  Dan<SUP>L</SUP> Carroll.

Virginia

  John Blair--
  James Madison Jr.

North Carolina

  W<SUP>M</SUP> Blount
  Rich<SUP>D</SUP>. Dobbs Spaight.
  Hu Williamson

South Carolina

  J. Rutledge
  Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  Charles Pinckney
  Pierce Butler.

Georgia

  William Few
  Abr Baldwin

New Hampshire

  John Langdon
  Nicholas Gilman

Massachsetts

  Nathaniel Gorham
  Rufus King

Connecticut

  W<SUP>M</SUP>. Sam<SUP>L</SUP>. Johnson
  Roger Sherman

New York

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