Daily Bites of the Constitution 26 - The terms of the president and vice president

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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 

Recopy of the original 1599 Geneva Bible, 

Patriot’s edition 2010 included in the index published by White Hall Press
, 3150 A Florence Road, Powder Springs, GA 30127 page 1399-1401 index Amendment 20-27 Amendment 20: 

The terms of the president and vice president shall end at noon on the 20th day of January and the terms of senators and representatives shall end at noon on the 3rd day of January in the year of which such term would have ended if this Article had not been ratified and the terms of their succession shall then begin.

 Section 2: The congress shall assemble at least once in every year and such meetings shall begin at noon on the 3rd day of January unless they shall by law appoint a different day. 

Section 3: If at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the president, the president elect shall have died, the vice president elect shall become president. If a president shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the president elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as president until a President shall have qualified and the congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a vice president elect shall have qualified, declaring then who shall act as president or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected and such person shall act accordingly until a president or vice president shall have qualified. 

Section 4: The congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a president whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. 

Section 5: Section 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this Article. 

Section 6: This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an Amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states within 7 years from the date of its submission.

 (Ratified January 23,1933) (to be continued Amendments 21-27)

To be Continued in the Next Daily Bites


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