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Article III.

Section 1.—The executive power of the star system shall be vested in a President of the United Republic. The individual shall hold Office during the Term of five 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 Delegates to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Delegate, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United Republic, shall be appointed an Elector.

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 as the electors. The Electors shall name on their ballots the person voted for as President and on separate ballots the person voted for as Vice President. They shall make separate 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. These lists shall be signed and certified by the Electors then sealed and transmitted to the legislative seat of the government of the United Republic, directed to the President of the Senate;

At the legislative seat of government of the United Republic, the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the House of Delegates and the Senate, 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. If no person has such a majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Delegates 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 members from two-thirds of the states and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

After the choice for President, the person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed. If no person has such a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President. A quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United Republic.

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United Republic, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and be fourteen Years a Resident within the United Republic.

The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of Ianuari of the years in which such terms would have ended and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

Before he or she enter on the Execution of the Office, the elected shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: --“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United Republic, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United Republic.”

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than five times, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than thrice.

If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the First Delegate of the House of Delegates his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the First Delegate of the House of Delegates their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the First Delegate of the House of Delegates his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the First Delegate of the House of Delegates their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

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 Republic, or any of them.

Section 2.—The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Space-faring Force of the United Republic, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United Republic; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United Republic, except in Cases of Impeachment.

The President shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United Republic, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Section 3.—The President shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he or she shall judge necessary and expedient; he or she may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he or she may adjourn them to such Time as the President shall think proper; he or she shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he or she shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United Republic.

Section 4.—The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United Republic, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Felonious acts.