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or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts,or grant any Title of Nobility.No State shall, without the Consent of theCongress, lay any Imposts or Duties onImports or Exports, except what may beabsolutely necessary for executing it’s inspectionLaws: and the net Produce of all Dutiesand Imposts, laid by any State on Imports orExports, shall be for the Use of the Treasuryof the United States; and all such Laws shallbe subject to the Revision and Controul of theCongress.No State shall, without the Consent of Congress,lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops,or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter intoany Agreement or Compact with anotherState, or with a foreign Power, or engage inWar, unless actually invaded, or in such imminentDanger as will not admit of delay.ARTICLE IISection 1 ■ The executive Power shall bevested in a President of the United States ofAmerica. He shall hold his Office during theTerm of four Years, and, together with the VicePresident, chosen for the same Term, beelected, as followsEach State shall appoint, in such Manner asthe Legislature thereof may direct, a Numberof Electors, equal to the whole Number ofSenators and Representatives to which theState may be entitled in the Congress: but noSenator or Representative, or Person holdingan Office of Trust or Profit under the UnitedStates, shall be appointed an Elector.The Electors shall meet in their respectiveStates, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, ofwhom one at least shall not be an Inhabitantof the same State with themselves. And theyshall make a List of all the Persons voted for,and of the Number of Votes for each; whichList they shall sign and certify, and transmitsealed to the Seat of the Government of theUnited States, directed to the President of theSenate. The President of the Senate shall, inthe Presence of the Senate and House ofRepresentatives, open all the Certificates, andthe Votes shall then be counted. The Personhaving the greatest Number of Votes shall bethe President, if such Number be a Majority ofthe whole Number of Electors appointed; andif there be more than one who have suchMajority, and have an equal Number of Votes,then the House of Representatives shall immediatelychuse by Ballot one of them for President;and if no Person have a Majority, thenfrom the five highest on the List the saidHouse shall in like Manner chuse the President.But in chusing the President, the Votes shallbe taken by States, the Representation fromeach State having one Vote; A quorum for thisPurpose shall consist of a Member or Membersfrom two thirds of the States, and a Majorityof all the States shall be necessary to a Choice.In every Case, after the Choice of the President,the Person having the greatest Numberof Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President.But if there should remain two or morewho have equal Votes, the Senate shall chusefrom them by Ballot the Vice President.The Congress may determine the Time ofchusing the Electors, and the Day on whichthey shall give their Votes; which Day shall bethe same throughout the United States.No Person except a natural born Citizen, or aCitizen of the United States, at the time of theAdoption of this Constitution, shall be eligibleto the Office of President; neither shall anyPerson be eligible to that Office who shall nothave attained to the Age of thirty five Years,and been fourteen Years a Resident within theUnited States.APPENDIX AAppendix A 799