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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 :
II. 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 representative, or person holding any office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
III. 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 for all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each ; which list they shall sign and certify, and trans- mit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, di- rected to the President of the Senate. The President of the Se- nate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representa- tives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be count- ed. 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 Representatives 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 votes shall be taber.
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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 the 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.
IV. 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.
V. 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.
VI. 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, re- signation, or inability, both of the President and Vice President, de- claring what officer shall then act as President : and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
VII. 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 re- ceive, within that period, any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
VIII. Before he enters 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.
I. 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 call- ed into the actual service of the United States. He may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officers in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respec- tive offices : and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons or offences against the United States, except in cases of impeach- ment.
If. 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 con- sent 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 appointments 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
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proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
III. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies 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 mea- sures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. He may on extraor. dinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them; and, in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of ad- journment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think pro- per. He shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed; and shall commis- sion all the officers of the United States.
SECTION IV.
The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office, on impeachment for, and convic- tion of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION I.
The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Su- preme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour : and shall at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
SECTION II.
I. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this constitution, the laws of the United States, and trea- ties made, or which shall be made under their authority ; to all cases, affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls ; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party, to controversies between two or more states, between a state or citizens of another state, between citizens of different states, between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects.
II. In all cases, affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before men- tioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the Congress shall make.
III. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places, as the Congress may by law have directed.
SLOTION II.
I. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the tes-
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timony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Il. The Congress shall Have power to declare the punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION I.
Full faith and credit shall be given, in each state, to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Con- gress may, by penal laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
SECTION II.
I. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.
Il. A person charged in any state with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
III. No person, held to service or labour in one state under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service oi' labour may be due.
SECTION III.
I. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union ; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state, nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states-without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
II. The Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all need- ful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.
SECTION IV.
'The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union, a republican form of government ; and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence. ARTICLE V.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses sball deem it necessary, shall propose amendinents to this constitution, or on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments; which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress : Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article : and that no state, with- but its consent. shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.
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ARTICLE VI.
I. All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this constitution, shall be as valid against the United States, under this constitution, as under the confederation.
II. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every state, shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary not- withstanding.
III. The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the membersof the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound, by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
ARTICLE VII.
The ratification of the convention of nine states shall be sufficient for the establishment of this constitution between the states so ratify- ing the same.
Done in the convention by the unanimous consent of the states pre- sent, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Inde- pendence of the United States of America the twelfth. In wit- ness whereof we have subscribed our names.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President, and delegate from Virginia. New-Hampshire-John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman.
Massachusetts-Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King.
Connecticut-William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman.
New-York-Alexander Hamilton.
New-Jersey-William Livingston, David Brearley, William Patter. son, Jonathan Dayton.
Pennsylvania-Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Governuer Morris.
Delaware-George Reed, Gunning Bedford, jun. John Dickinson, Richard Basset, Jacob Broom.
Maryland-James M'Henry, Daniel (of St. Thomas) Jenifer, Daniel Carroll.
Virginia-John Blair, James Madison, jun.
North-Carolina-William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson.
South-Carolina-John Rutledge, Charles C. Pinckney, Charles Pinck- ney, Pierce Butler.
Georgia-William Few, Abraham Baldwin.
.Ittest, WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary.
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AMENDMENTS.
The following Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United states, having been ratified by the legislatures of nine states, are equally obligatory with the Constitution itself.
I. CONGRESS shall make no· law respecting an establishment of re- ligion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the free- dom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
II. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
III. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner ; nor in time of war, but in a man- ner to be prescribed by law.
IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated ; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.
V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise in- famous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war, or public danger: nor shall any person be subject, for the same offence, to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury, of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed : which district shall have been previously ascertained by law ; and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him ; to have compulsory process for obtaining wit- nesses in his favour; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars; the right of trial by jury shall be preserved and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the com- mon law.
VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required ; nor excessive fines im- posed ; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
IX. The enumeration, in the constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitu. tion, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states re- spectively, or to the people.
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XI. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law orequity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
XII. The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves ; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government of the United States, directed to the president of the Senate; the president of the Senate shall, in the pre- sençe 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 for President sbail be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in chosing 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 mem- bers from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-president : a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.
But no person constitutionally eligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of' Vice-President of the United States.
XIII. If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, re- ceive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of congress, accept and rerin any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them or either of themn.
[NOTE .- The 11th arricie of the amendments to the constitution, Was proposed at the second session of the third congress : the 12th article, at the first session of the eighth congress : and the 13th article at the second session of the eleventh congress.]
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
CIVIL DEPARTMENT.
JAMES MONROE, of Virginia, President of the United States, DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, of New-York, Vice-president of the United States,
salary $25,000
$5,00)
MEMBERS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. SENATE. New-Hampshire .- David L. Morrill, Clement Storer.t Massachusetts .- Harrison Gray Otis,t Eli P. Asbmun. Rhode-Island .- William Hunter,* James Burril, jr. Connecticut .- David Dagget,* Samuel W. Dana. Vermont .- James Fisk,+ Isaac Tichenor .* New-York .- Rufas King,* Nathan Sanford." New-Jersey .- James J. Wilson,* Mahlon Dickerson.
· Pennsylvania .- Abner Lacock,* Jonathan Roberts .* Delaware .- Outerbridge Horsey,* Nich. Van Dyke.t Maryland .- R. H. Goldsborough,* Alexander C. Hanson. Virginia .- James Barbour,* John W. Eppes.t North-Carolina .- Nathaniel Macon,* Montford Stokes .* South-Carolina .- John Gaillard,* William Smith. Georgia .- Charles Tait,* George M. Troup .* Kentucky .- John J. Crittendon, Isham Talbot .* Tennessee .- John Williams,* George W. Campbell .* Ohio -Jeremiah Morrow,* Benjamin Ruggles .* Louisiana .- Elijuis Fromentin,* Wm. C. C. Claiborne.+ Mississippi .- Thomas S. Williams, Judge Leake. Indiana .- James Noble, Walter Taylor.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
New-Hampshire .- Josiah Butler, Clifton Clagett, Salma Hale, Ar- thur Livermore, John F. Parrot, Nathaniel Upham. 6.
Massachusetts -Jeremiah Nelson,* Walter Folger, jun. Benjamin Adams,* John Wilson,+ Nathaniel Silsbee, Solomon Strong .* John Holmes, Joshua Gage, Timothy Fuller, Marcus Morton, Henry Shaw, Ezekiel Whitman,t Samuel C. Allen, Albion K. Paris,* Nathaniel Ruggle,* Elijah H. Mills* Zabdiel Sampson, Benjamin Orr, Jonathan Mason,* (One vacancy.) 20
Rhode-Island .- John L. Boss, * James B. Mason."
Connecticut .- Nathaniel Terry, Ebenezer Huntingdon, Uriel Holmes,
Thise having this mark * were members of the last (14th) Con- gress : and those marked thus t have been members of former Con- gresses : those without a mark, are new members.
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Jona. O. Moseley,* Timothy Pitkin,* Samuel B. Sherwood, Thomas S. Williams, (One vacancy.) 8.
Vermont .- Herman Allen, Samuel Crafts, Wm. Hunter, Orasmus C. Merril, Charles Rich, t Mark Richards. 6.
New-York .- Oliver C. Comstock,* Daniel Cruger, John P. Cushman, John R. Drake, Benj. Ellicott, Josiah Hasbrouck, John Herkimer, Thomas H. Hubbard, William Irving," Dorrance Kirtland, Thomas Layer, David A. Ogden, John Parmer, James Porter, John Savage,* Philip.J. Schuyler, Tredwell Scudder, John C. Spencer, Henry R. Stores James Tallmadge, John W. Taylor,* Charles Tompkins, Geo. Town- send,* Peter H. Wendover,* Rensalaer Westerloo, James W. Wilkin,* I-aac Williams.+ 27
New-Jersey .- Ephraim'Bateman, * Benjamin Bennet,* Joseph Bloom- field, Charles Kinsey, John Linn, Henry Southward .* 6
Pennsylvania .-- William Anderson,t Henry Baldwin, Andrew Boden, Isaac Darlington,* Joseph Heister,* Joseph Hopkinson,* Samuel D. Ingham,* Willam Maclay,* W. P. Maclay,1 David Marchand, Robert Moore, Alexander Ogle, Thomas Patterson, Levi Pawling, John Ross,* John Sergeant,* Adam Seybert,t Jacob Spangler, Christian, Tarr, James M. Wallace,* John Whiteside,* William Wilson, John Mur- ray, jr. 23
Delaware .- Willard Hall, Louis: M'Lane. £ 2
Maryland .- Thomas Bayley, Thomas Colbreth, John C. Herbert, Peter Little,* George Peter,* Philip Reed, Samuel Ringgold,* Sa- muel Smith,* Philip Stuart .- 9.
Virginia -Archibald Austin, Wm. Lee Ball, Philip P. Barbour,* Burwell Basset,* W. A. Burwell,* Edward Colston, John Floyd, Ro- bert S. Garnett, Peterson Goodwyn,* James Johnson,* Wm. J. Lewis, Wuliam McCoy,t Charles F. Mercer, Hugh Nelson,* Thomas M. Nel- son,* Thomas Newton," Jas. Pindall, James Pleasants,* Ballard Smith,* Alexander Smyth, George F. Strother, H. St. Geo. Tucker,* John Tyler .- 23.
North Carolina .- Joseph: H. Bryan,* Weldon N. Edwards, * Daniel Forney,* Joon H. Hall, Alexander M' Millan, George Mumford, Tho- mas Settle, Jesse Stocumb, J. S. Smith, James Owen, Lemuel Sawyer,f Felix Walker, Louis Williams,* one vacancy .- 14.
South-Carolina .- Joseph Bellinger, Elias Earle,t James Erving, W. Lowndes,* Henry Middleton,* Stephen D. Miller,* Wilson Nesbitt, Sterling Tucker, one vacancy .- 9.
Georgia .- Joel Abbot, Thos. W. Cobb, Zeddock Cook,* Joel Craw- ford, John Forsyth,* William Terrill .- 6.
Kentucky -Rich. C. Anderson, Henry Clay,* Joseph Desha,* Rich. M. Johnson,* Anthony New,t Tun tall Quarles, Geo. C. Robinson, Thomas Speed, David Trimble, David Walker .- 10.
Tennessee .- WV. G. Blount,* Thos. Claiborne, Samuel Hogg, Francis Jones, W. L. Marr. John Rhea, t-6.
Ohio .- Levi Barber, Philemon Beecher, John W. Campbell, Wrn. H. Harison,* Samuel Herreck,f Peter Hitchcock .- 6.
Louisiana .- Thomas B. Robertson. *- 1. Indiana -William H-ndricks .*- 1.
Mississippi -George Poindexter.t-1.
Illinois Territory .- Nathaniel Pope .*- 1.
Missouri .- John Scott .*- 1.
Alabama Territory, (Not known.)
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POLITICAL DESIGNATION Of the 14th and 15th Congresses of the United States.
The following comparative view is from the Norfolk Herald. It shows a great decline of the power or spirit of party. 14th CONGRESS. = 15th CONGRESS.
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