ARTICLE 2. SECTION 1.

ARTICLE II

SECTION 1.

The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

• (THAT MAKES HIM/HER THE BOSS! YET, CONGRESS APPEARS TO BE WORKING IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO THE REAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF!)

He shall hold his office during the term of four years, (9).

• Why not he/she ?

(9) The Twenty-Second Amendment limits a President to two terms.

• (THE 22ND AMENDMENT WAS SIGNED IN 1951. WHY DID FDR HAVE FOUR TERMS? WHO AUTHORIZED THAT AND WHY WAS A TERM LIMIT LATER IMPOSED? WHY?)

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 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.

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 all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of 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 choose 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, choose the President. But in choosing 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 choose from them by ballot the Vice President.(11).

(11). This whole paragraph is superseded by the Twelfth Amendment.

The Congress may determine the time of choosing 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 a natural born citizen,

or a citizen of the United States,

at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, (12).

(12). This was a temporary provision.

• (? WHY A “TEMPORARY PROVISION” AND WHEN AND WHY DID IT EXPIRE?)

shall be eligible to the office of President;

• (?TO WHICH FORMER PRESIDENT MIGHT THIS REFER?)

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. (13).

(13). The Twelfth Amendment establishes the same qualifications for Vice President.

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. (14). (Typist’s note: Read the previous paragraph very carefully.)

(14). This paragraph has been modified by the Twentieth and Twenty-Fifth Amendments,

and by the Presidential Succession Act.

The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services 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.

• (?WHAT IS AN EMOLUMENT? IS THIS WHY ONLY RICH PERSONS RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY? AND EXACTLY WHAT IS THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT “WE THE PEOPLE” PAY OUR PRESIDENT?)

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.”

• (?DO CONGRESS MEMBERS SWEAR AN OATH? IF SO, WHAT IS IT? IF A PERSON SWEARS TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, THEY ARE SWEARING TO UPHOLD THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION...INSTEAD OF...THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. THE CONSTITUTION APPEARS TO HAVE ALTERED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS APPEARS TO HAVE ALTERED THEM BOTH….GIVING CONGRESS A GREAT DEAL MORE POWER OVER “WE THE PEOPLE” THAN I BELIEVE WAS INTENDED BY OUR FOUNDERS. (?ANY THOUGHTS?)

see: ARTICLE 3. SECTION 1.

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