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 Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or
Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an
Elector
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 List they shall sign
and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the
Government of the United States, directed to the President
of the Senate
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