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THE STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FACTS 



14. To make rules for the government and regulation 

 of the land and naval forces. 



lo. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute 

 the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel 

 invasions. 



16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplin- 

 ing the militia, and for governing such part of them as 

 may be employed in the service of the United States, 

 reserving to the States respectively the appointment of 

 the officers, and the authority of training the militia 

 according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. 



17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases what- 

 soever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) 

 as may, by cession of particular States and the accept- 

 ance of Congress, become the seat of Government of the 

 United States, and to exercise like authority over all 

 places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of 

 the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of 

 forts, magazines, arsenals, dry-docks and other needful 

 buildings. 



18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and 

 proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, 

 and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the 

 Government of the United States, or in any department 

 or officer thereof. 



SECTION IX. 1. The migration or importation of 

 such persons as any of the States now existing shall 

 think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by the 

 Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred 

 and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such 

 importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. 



2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not 

 be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or in- 

 vasion the public safety may require it. 



3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be 

 pa-sod. 



4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, 

 unless in proportion to the census or enumeration here- 

 inbefore directed to be taken. 



5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported 

 from any State. 



6. No preference shall be given by any regulation of 

 commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over 

 those of another, nor shall vessels bound to or from 

 one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in 

 another. 



7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but 

 in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a 

 regular statement and account of the receipts and ex- 

 penditures of all public money shall be published from 

 time to time. 



8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United 

 States. And no person holding any office of profit nor 

 trust under them shall, without the consent of the Con- 

 gress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title 

 of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign 

 state. 



SECTION X. 1. No State shall enter into any treaty, 

 alliance, or confederation, grant letters of marque and 

 reprisal, coin money, emit bills of credit, make any- 

 thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of 

 debts, pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or 

 law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any 

 title of nobility. 



2. No State shall, without the consent of the Con- 

 gress, lay any impost or duties on imports or exports, 

 except what may be absolutely necessary for executing 

 its inspection laws, and the net produce of all duties 

 and imposts, laid by any State on imports or exports, 

 shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States: 

 and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and 

 control of the Congress. 



3. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, 

 lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war 

 in time of 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. 



ARTICLE II. 



SECTION I. 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 years, and, 

 together with the -Vice-President, chosen for the same 

 term, be elected as follows: 



2. 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 Representa- 

 tives 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. 



3. [The Electors shall meet in their respective States 



and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one nt> 

 least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with 

 themselves. And they shall make a list of all the per- 

 sons 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 cer- 

 tificates, and the 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 Representa- 

 tives 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 vote shall be taken by States, the repre- 

 sentation 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.] * 



4. 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. 



5. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citi- 

 zen of the United States at the time of the adoption of 

 this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of Presi- 

 dent; 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. 



6. 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, resigna- 

 tion, or inability, both of the President and Vice-Presi- 

 dent, 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. 



7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for 

 his services a compensation which shall neither be in- 

 creased 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. 



8. 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." 



SECTION II. 1. The President shall be Commander- 

 in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, 

 and of the militia of the several States when called into 

 the actual service of the United States; he may require 

 the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each 

 of the executive departments upon any subject relating 

 to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall 

 have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences 

 against the United States except in cases of impeachment. 



2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two- 

 thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall 

 nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate shall appoint ambassadors, other public 

 ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, 

 and all other officers of the United States whose appoint- 

 ments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which 

 shall be established by law; but the Congress may by 

 law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as 

 they think proper in the President alone, in the courts 

 of law, or in the heads of departments. 



3. The President shall have power to fill up all vacan- 

 cies that may happen during the recess of the Senate 

 by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end 

 of their next session. 



SECTION III. He shall from time to time give to the 

 Congress information of the state of the Union, and 

 recommend to their consideration such measures as he 

 shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extra- 



* This clause is superseded by Article XII., Amend- 

 ments. 



