atives 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. 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 the 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 ineligible to the office of president shall be
eligible to that of vice-president of the United States.

Index

Academies and colleges, 82
Accessories to crime, 220
Actions at law, defined, 64
how commenced, 64
Adjutant-general, 92
Administrators, duties of, 179
Admission of states, 158
Agent, responsibilities of, 202-204
Alabama, constitution of, 259
Aldermen, duties of, 60
Aliens, power to pass laws for the naturalization of, 121, 122
disabilities of, 121
Alliance, defined, 135
Alliances, when binding, 230, 231
by states, prohibited, 135
Amendments of the constitution, provision for, 160
Appeals of suits, 68, 69
Appellant, appellee, defined, 69
Apellate jurisdiction, defined, 70
Appointment, power of, (see Governor and President.)
Apprentices and servants, 175, 176
Aquatic rights, 183, 185
Aristocracy, defined, 25
Arkansas, constitution of, 264
Army, standing, 149
Arrest and examination of offenders, 69
Arsenals, use of, 92
Arson, defined, 217
Assault and battery, 220
Assessment and collection of taxes, 76-78
Assessors, duties of, 77
Assignments, 197-199
Assumption of public debt, 160
Attachment, suit by, 68
Attainder of treason, 155
Attorney, defined, 65
Attorney, county or state's, 51, 56
Attorney-general, state, 51
of United States, 151
Auditor of state, 51
county, 65
Auxiliary executive departments, 147-151

Bail, defined, how taken, 69, 70
excessive, forbid