Article 2 Section 1 Constitution

Article ii section 1 clause 2 of the u s.

Article 2 section 1 constitution. The transportation or importation into any state territory or possession of the united states for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited. Each state shall appoint in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct a number of electors. This section later modified by amendments xii and xxv outlines who is eligible to serve as president establishes the electoral college the means by which the president and vice president are elected and authorizes congress to determine who will replace the president and vice president should they be unable to serve during their term of office.

Before the twenty fifth amendment a vice presidential vacancy continued until a new vice president took office at the start of the next term. Article ii section 1 establishes that the president has the power to run the executive branch of the government. The former bestows federal legislative power exclusively to congress and the latter grants judicial power solely to the supreme court and other federal courts established by law.

The eighteenth article of amendment to the constitution of the united states is hereby repealed. 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. The executive power shall be vested in a president of the united states of america.

The executive power shall be vested in a president of the united states of america. Similar clauses are found in article i and article iii. The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.

Section 2 addresses the constitution s failure to originally provide a mechanism for filling a vacancy in the office of vice president during the term in which the vacancy occurred. The president shall at stated times receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be encreased 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. Article 1 section 2 of the united states constitution.

Article 2 the executive branchsection 1 the president. 4 1864 in 7 the collected works of abraham lincoln 1953. Constitution opens by saying.