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
| 1. | John Locke, Second Treatise, §§ 144--48, 155--68, 1689 |
| 2. | William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:243--44, 1765 |
| 3. | Virginia Declaration of Rights, sec. 5, 12 June 1776 |
| 4. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 5. | James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 24 Oct. 1787 |
| 6. | Cato, no. 4, 8 Nov. 1787 |
| 7. | An Old Whig, no. 5, Fall 1787 |
| 8. | James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 4 Dec. 1787 |
| 9. | James Iredell, Marcus, Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution, 1788 |
| 10. | Federal Farmer, no. 14, 17 Jan. 1788 |
| 11. | Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 7 Feb. 1788 |
| 12. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 67, 452--53, 11 Mar. 1788 |
| 13. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 70, 471--80, 15 Mar. 1788 |
| 14. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 71, 481--85, 18 Mar. 1788 |
| 15. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 72, 468--92, 19 Mar. 1788 |
| 16. | Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention, 5, 10, 17--18 June 1788 |
| 17. | John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 31 Oct. 1797 |
| 18. | St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 316--25, 328--29, 1803 |
| 19. | United States v. Burr |
| 20. | Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 12 June 1807 |
| 21. | Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 17 June 1807 |
| 22. | Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 20 June 1807 |
| 23. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1407--10, 1413, 1429--36, 1444--46, 1833 |
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