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  :

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  represen-
tative, or  person  holding  an  office  of  trust  or  profit  under  the  United
States,  shall  be  appointed  an  elector.
APPENDIX    C.
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[a  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  of  all
the  persons  voted  for,  and  of  the  number  of  votes  for  each ;  which

Proceedin  s  of   list  they  ska^  s!gn  ^^  certifv  an^  transmit  sealed  to  the
Electors  and      seat  of  the  government  of  the  United  States,  directed  to

of  Congress.
