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SECTION III. Other Powers and Duties of the President
For president’s personal
appearances.
Messages; extra sessions; receiving ambassadors; execution of the
laws. 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 extraordinary occasions, convene
both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the
time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive
ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and
shall commission all the officers of the United States.
SECTION IV. Impeachment
See discussion of Presidents
Johnson, Nixon, and
Clinton.
Article III. Judicial Department
Civil officers may be removed by impeachment. The President, Vice
President and all civil officers 1 of the United States shall be removed
from office on impeachment for, and on conviction of, treason, bribery,
and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
SECTION I. The Federal Courts
The judicial power belongs to the federal courts. The judicial
power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme 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 behavior, and shall, at
stated times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished2 See Judiciary Act of 1789.
during their
continuance in office.
SECTION II. Jurisdiction of Federal Courts
1. Kinds of cases that may be heard. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity,
arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties 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 and citizens
of another State3 ;—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.
2. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. 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. 4 In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate
jurisdiction, 5 both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the
Congress shall make.
3. Trial for federal crime is by jury. 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
1i.e., all federal executive and judicial offi cers, but not members of Congress or military personnel.
2In 1978, in a case involving federal judges, the Supreme Court ruled that diminution of salaries by infl ation
was irrelevant.
3Th e Eleventh Amendment (see below) restricts this to suits by a state against citizens of another state.
4i.e., such cases must originate in the Supreme Court.
5i.e., it hears other cases only when they are appealed to it from a lower federal court or a state court.
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