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mitted, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law; and to be informed of
the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him;
to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assist-
ance of counsel for his defence..

PERSONS voted for as President and Vice President to be named in the ballots.....
PETITION. Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the govern-
ment for a redress of grievances

PINCKNEY, deputy from South Carolina, signed this Constitution. Charles C...
PINCKNEY, deputy from South Carolina, signed this Constitution. Charles

PIRACIES. Congress shall have power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on
the high seas, and offences against the law of nations
PORTS. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue, to the ports of
one State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged
to enter, clear, or pay duties in another..
POSTERITY. The Constitution established in order to secure the blessings of liberty to our-
selves and to our posterity
POST Offices and Post Roads. Congress shall have power to establish post offices and post
roads.

POWER of impeachment. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeach

ment

POWER. Congress shall have power. (See Congress.).

POWER. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments

POWER. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America
POWER. The President shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the
United States, except in cases of impeachment

POWER. The power of the President in making treaties, appointments, &c. (See President.)..
POWER. (See Judicial power.)..

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POWER. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit, in
law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of
another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State
POWERS herein granted vested in Congress. All legislative
POWERS. Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for
carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Consti

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tution in the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof. Congress.)....

(See
POWERS. In case of the inability of the President to discharge the powers and duties of the
office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President
POWERS. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited

PRESENT. The yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the
desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the Journal...

PRESENT. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding
any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept
of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or
foreign State
PRESENTED. Every bill, order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and
House of Representatives may be necessary, &c., shall be presented to the President
PRESENTMENT of a grand jury. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise
infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases
arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war
or public danger.

PRESERVE the Constitution. The President of the United States shall take an oath, or affirma-
tion, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution

PRESIDENT of the Senate. (See Senate of the United States.) PRESIDENT pro tempore. (See Senate of the United States.)

PRESIDENT of the United States. The Senate shall choose a President pro tempore when the Vice President shall act as...

PRESIDENT of the United States. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Represen-
tatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the
United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it, with his objec-
tions, to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at
large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. (See Bill.)..
PRESIDENT of the United States. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten
days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a
law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, pre-
vent its return; in which case it shall not be a law. (See Bill.)...
PRESIDENT of the United States. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence
LIFES of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary, (except on a question of
adjournment,) shall be presented to the President of the United States, and, before the same
shall take effect, shall be approved by him; or, being disapproved by him, shall be re-
passed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives. (See Resolution.)....
PRESIDENT of the United States. 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:......
Electors appointed. 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 Representa-
tives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representa-
tive, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be ap-
pointed an elector......

Electors' proceedings. The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by
ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant
of the same State with themselves. They shall name in their ballots the person voted for
as President, and, in distinct ballots, the person voted for as Vice President; and they
shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for
as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists 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.......

Electoral votes opened and counted. The President of the Senate shall, in presence of

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the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then
be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the
President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed...

Election by House of Representatives. And if no person have such majority, then
from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those
voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose, immediately, by ballot,
the President. But, in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the
representation 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.

Election failing the Vice President shall act. And if the House of Representatives shall
not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the
fourth 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..
PRESIDENT of the United States. 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 the office who shall not have attained
to the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resident within the United States......
PRESIDENT of the United States. 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.......
PRESIDENT of the United States. 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....

PRESIDENT of the United States. 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