Daily Bites of the Constitution :6
By Pearl Leona Sturgis
Post # 6
Preamble:
Post # 6
Daily Bites of the Constitution of the United States
Reads From the Constitution in the Department of State's:
Preamble:
We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America. Article 1 legislative department: Section 1” Congress legislative powers vested: All legislative powers herein granted (by the people) shall be vested in a congress of the United States which shall consist of a senate and a house of representatives (for the people)
United States Constitution Article
United States Constitution Article
Article 2: Section 1
President and Vice President:
Executive Powers vested and terms:
The president shall hold his office during the term of four (4) years and together with the vice president chosen for the same term be elected as follows: paragraph
2: Electors: Each state shall appoint on 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.
Former methods of electing a president and vice president: The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for two persons, one of which shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. they shall make a list of all the persons voted for and 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 be the president, if such number shall be the majority of the whole number of the electors appointed. If there be more than one who have such a majority and have an equal number of votes then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for president.
(to be continued...)
(to be continued...)
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