ice.
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.][2]

Clause 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.

Clause 5. 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.

Clause 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, 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.

Clause 7. 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,
or any of them.

Clause 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. Powers of the President.

Clause 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
offenses against the United States, except in c