CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 33
Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State,
or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually
invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of
delay.
Green v. Biddle, 8 Wh. 1. Poole et al. v. The Lessee of Fleeger et al, 11
Pet. 185. Cooley v. Board of Wardens of Port of Philadelphia et al, 12
How 299. Peete v Morgan, 19 Wall. 581. Cannon v New Orleans, 20
Wall. 577. Inman Steam-ship Company v. Tinker, 94 U S. 238. Packet Co
v. St Louis, 100 U. S 423. Packet Co. v. Keokuk, 96 U. S 80 Vicksburg
v. Tobin, 100 U. S 430. Packet Co. v. Catlettsburg, 105 U S. 559 Morgan
Steamship Company v. Louisiana Board of Health, 118 U S 455. Ouachita
Packet Co. v. Aiken, 121 U S. 444. Huse v. Glover, 119 U S. 543 Harmon
v. Chicago, 147 U. S. 396. Va. v. Tenn , 148 U. S. 503. Wharton v. Wise,
153 U. S 155. St. Louis, &c. Ry. Co. v. James, 161 U S. 545. American
Steel and Wire Co v. Speed, 192 U. S. 600.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a
President of the United States of America. He shall hold his
Office during the Term of four Tears, 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 Repre-
sentative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under
the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Chisholm, ex. v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 419. Leitensdorfer et al. v. Webb, 20
How 176. Ex parte Siebold, 100 U. S. 271. McPherson v. Blacker, 146
U. S 1.
* [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
*This clause has been superseded by the twelfth amendment, p 49.
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