34 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
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.]
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.
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.
English v. The Trustees of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, 3 Pet. 99.
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.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services,
a 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, on any of them.
Pollock v. Fanners' Loan & Trust Co., 157 U. S. 429.
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