Author: DUDLEY CRAWFORD

Treaties
The Senate is required to submit all treaties to the Supreme Court for a check of constitutionality before a vote.
The Senate shall vote for or against treaties. A majority vote shall be by 2/3 of those Senators present. Any members not present will be considered to have voted Yes but Not Present and that vote shall not be counted in the majority vote.
The Senate is admonished that all treaties should be of clear benefit to the United States. The benefit to the United States must be clearly demonstrated in the Treaty. Any Citizen has standing to challenge a treaty in a court of law.
No treaties promising military support to another country are allowed except during times of War. Immediately on cessation of warfare, that Treaty is abrogated.
No treaties favoring one business over another are allowed. We are attempting to eliminate crony capitalism whereby one business gives money to government persons in return for preferential treatment. Nor is the government allowed to force a company to do their bidding in pursuit of diplomacy or for some other reason.

Continuation in Office
There must be an annual audit of the Senators’ financial accounts and the audits must be placed in the public record.
No Senator may hire any family member.
No Senator may recommend any family member for any job in any government.
No Senator may have business dealings with any business doing business with the government.
No Senator may have business dealings with any family member.
No Senator shall have more than three assistants and more than two offices.
A Senator shall be subject to a recall at the will of the voters in his district providing that the recall petition is legally signed by 10% of the Citizens in that district. The petition must be submitted within three months after the petition is opened. The certification or non-certification of the petition will occur one month after the petition is submitted. The State legislature shall set the date of the recall election to be within one month of the certification of the recall. Any subsequent election to fill that seat in the event the recall succeeds will be held within one month of the recall vote. Each State will make their own laws further defining these events.

Section 4 – Elections, Meetings
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof. The Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations. All Citizens have standing to challenge these regulations in a court of law.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3rd day of January.
Immediately before the election in mid-December, Congress will adjourn until the time for the next Congress to take their place. There will be no lame-duck session allowed except for declaration of war if needed.

Section 5 – Qualification for Government Employment
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Representatives and Senators shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same.
For any Speech or Debate in either House, Representatives and Senators shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Section 6 – Debt
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the previous Constitution.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States; All such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
The United States Congress can borrow an amount equal to 5% of total taxes collected for a particular year and that deficit must be completely repaid within five years.
The total peacetime United States debt shall not be greater than 10% of the rolling average of three years of total taxes collected during peacetime.
During war time, total United States deficit and debt may go as high as needed. When the war ends, there will be no deficits allowed until the debt is paid down to 10% of the rolling average of three years of total taxes collected.
Any Citizen has standing to sue in court over the deficit and the debt. Failure to maintain a proper deficit and debt will result in the expulsion of all members of Congress at the end of their current terms and they will never be allowed to work in any capacity for any government again. The Courts are enjoined that one of their primary goals is to not allow the government of the United States to incur a debt beyond what is permitted above.
Any debt owed by the previous government shall be made good by the new government. Any debt owed to the previous government must be honored to the new government.

Section 7 – Membership, Rules, Journals, Adjournment
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. Any Citizen has the standing to challenge the qualifications of any member of Congress in court.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings except as noted below, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings and publish the same every day verbatim with no additions or corrections, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy. Any Citizen may sue in court if it is believed that Congress is gaming the system on secrecy. A federal Court shall review the relevant records. If the court finds for the plaintiff, then the Representatives and or Senators (depending on the guilty House) will be expelled from Congress at the ends of their current terms and never allowed to work for any government again.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote in the Senate shall be by roll call without exception and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of both Houses on every question shall be entered on the Journal.
Every meeting will be entered in the Journal.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

Section 8 – Compensation
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Congress shall not establish a commission nor any other structure that will determine the salary of government employees.
All governmental salaries shall be set at 95% of their equivalent private company salary to be determined by the average of the results from three private compensation tracking companies except as noted in this Constitution.
All government salaries must be voted on in both houses of Congress and must pass with a majority of 60%.
No government employee shall be compensated more than 75% of a Representative except as noted elsewhere.
All members of Congress, all members of the cabinet, judges and other senior officials designated by Congress shall be compensated at a rate of twice that of the median American salary.
No government employee shall be given a pension by the government. They shall be permitted to establish a 401K savings plan not run by the government just as do many United States Citizens.
No government employee will be given government-provided healthcare. They shall be permitted to establish a health savings account not run by the government just as do many United States Citizens.

Section 9 – Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto
The Congress is prohibited from approving a budget in peacetime where National Defense receives less than 50% of the total taxes collected.
All bills for raising Taxes of any kind shall originate in the House of Representatives. The Senate may vote Aye or Nay but are prohibited from altering the bills in any way. This is necessary as the Senate has the power of Appointments and it is important to level the powers of the two Houses as near as possible. The Senate may make suggestion for changes to the House, which the House may accept or reject.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within fourteen Days 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 prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary 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 repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

Section 10 – Enumerated Powers and Acts of Congress
The Congress is granted these enumerated Powers and Acts only. The enumerated Powers are numbered one to six:

1) To provide Security against foreign danger.
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years.
Of levying and borrowing money.
To declare War and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.
To provide and maintain an Army, Army Reserve, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard, Militia and Coast Guard. The National Guard is for the use of the States and shall be called to national duty only in the event of a declaration of war by both Houses of Congress, the vote to be 70% in the majority. The Militia is only for defense of the homeland in the event of an invasion and is to never be called to National duty. Only the States may call the Militia to duty. Such Adult Citizens as wish to be a part of the Militia will be given at a minimum the normal amount of military training given to a recruit. Currently, such training is 16 weeks to train up an infantry soldier.
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the federal Military and the National Guard, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States and the Authority of training them all according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

2) Regulation of the intercourse with foreign nations.
To make Treaties.
To end and receive ambassadors, other public ministers and Consuls.
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations. However, the government should encourage businesses to make their own business arrangements. Commercial treaties should be limited as much as possible to items such as fishing rights where it is nearly impossible for a business to negotiate with every fishing company in the world. All Citizens have standing to take Acts of the Commerce Power to court.

3) Maintenance of Harmony and Proper Intercourse Among the States.
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin.
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the current coin and securities of the United States.
To fix the standard of weights and measures.
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization.
To establish a uniform law of bankruptcy.
To prescribe the way the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each State shall be proved, and the effect they shall have in other States.

4) Certain miscellaneous objects of general utility.
The Congress may vote to overturn a Supreme Court ruling. The vote to overturn must be 70% in each House.
Congress is mandated to devise methods for the Adult Citizens of the United States to overturn a legislative act, an Executive act and a Judicial act.
Congress shall devise a process whereby the Adult Citizens shall know that a Constitutional Crisis is underway. The process will allow the Executive, Legislative, Judiciary, States and Adult Citizens a path to declare a Constitutional Crisis. Once one is declared then the Constitutional Convention process must be followed within one month.
A power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for forty years, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
To make all laws to establish the Executive bureaucracy.
The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes on all Inhabitants to pay the Debts. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes from whatever source derived.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes on businesses, the rate not to exceed 1% of gross revenue. As we know, this tax will be passed-through to the Citizens using those products and will not count in their total tax calculation.
To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such as may, by cession of States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States.
To declare the punishment of treason.
To admit new States into the Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding one Mile square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings. However, for crimes such as murder, robbery and more, the States shall exercise the primary judicial and legislative authority.
To dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States.
To consider all debts contracted, and engagements entered, before the adoption of this Constitution, as being no less valid against the United States, under this Constitution, than under the Confederation.

5) Restraint of the States from certain injurious acts.
No State shall enter any treaty, alliance, or confederation.
No State shall grant letters of marque and reprisal.
No State shall coin money.
No State shall emit bills of credit.
No State shall make anything but gold and silver a legal tender in payment of debts.
No State shall pass any bill of attainder.
No State shall pass any ex-post-facto law.
No State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contract.
No State shall grant any title of nobility.
No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imports or duties on imports or exports.

6) Provisions for giving due efficacy to all these powers.
This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives, and the members of the several State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both United States and the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution.
To make all Laws which shall carry into Execution the Acts listed under the enumerated Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Section 11 – Limits on Congress
Congress shall approve or disapprove all regulations written and approved by all the federal Departments.
All taxes shall be uniform throughout the United States and shall be applied to every inhabitant per the regulation of the Congress. Congress is enjoined from excusing any Citizen, Non-Citizen or any entity from payment of taxes. The Courts are enjoined to ensure that Congress does not create separate classes of taxpayers. Should Congress be found to have done so by a Court all Congresspersons who voted for the separate class shall be immediately dismissed from Congress and may never serve in any government in any capacity.
The Congress may not impose individual taxes to exceed 12.5% total per individual. A progressive/graduated tax is prohibited. No government may collect tax at the individual level on food, medicine, clothing, alcohol, tobacco, transportation, weapons or housing except as noted elsewhere in this Constitution
No lawyers can be Congresspeople.
All federal laws, rulings and regulations will be limited to a term of ten years. The Congress is prohibited from routinely re-approving federal regulations after they expire. The regulations, if they are desirable, must pass through the entire Congressional routine for approval. Any Citizen has standing to challenge any of these regulations in a court of law.
The tax code must be small and easily understood by every Inhabitant and business. Every entity paying federal taxes must be able to calculate their taxes within 10 minutes.
No mineral royalty taxes allowed except on those minerals that are sold outside of the US. In those cases, Congress shall create a special export tax to be put on the sale of those minerals.
Whistleblowers and auditors shall be granted protected status in government. They have the right to sue in federal court if they believe that their legal activities have resulted in sanctions from government entities they work in or audit. The Courts are enjoined to make it a primary concern to protect these rights.
The government is prohibited from banning any American business from doing business in any country that is not in a State of War with the United States. Any Citizen has standing to sue in court if they believe that Congress is interfering in their ability to do business in another country.
Congress shall not impose martial law anywhere in the United States unless by majority vote of 75% in both houses of the Congress and with the written request of the President.
Congress is enjoined to take their responsibilities seriously when it comes to federal wrong-doing. No one in government has immunity except as noted in this Constitution. Any Citizen has standing to bring charges against federal officials if Congress or the Attorney General refuses to file charges after an investigation. The full record of the investigation shall be turned over intact to the plaintiff to further the case. If Congress is found guilty of ignoring their duties and responsibilities, then those government officials named in the case and found guilty will be dismissed from government and never allowed to work in any government in any capacity.
Congress is prohibited from authorizing or operating Post Offices. Within twenty-five years of ratification of this Constitution, all current Post Offices must be sold to private companies. Congress must pass the necessary laws to accomplish this effort.
Congress is prohibited from funding any bills that look like the current Oversea Contingency Operations. This is nothing more than a slush fund to provide money to the military for constant warfare. Another fund like this is the so-called Judgement Fund. Any Citizen has standing to sue if they believe such a slush fund exists. If proven in a court of law, then those government officials shall be immediately ejected from government and never allowed to work for any government ever again.
No Port will be given preference 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.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted or recognized by the United States.
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.
The Congress shall not establish a Minimum Wage.
The Congress shall not grant farm subsidies for any reason.
The Congress is banned from setting a price for any good sold in the United States.
The Congress is banned from paying anyone for not producing a good or service.
The Congress is banned from establishing CAFE (gas mileage) rules.
The Congress is banned from ordering any expenditure for a private business either as a loan or as a direct subsidy.
No government of any kind can spend tax money for sporting events, entities or venues.
The Congress is prohibited from joining or enacting a treaty with any entity which requires the United States to surrender any power to that organization.
The Congress is prohibited from enacting any law that looks like Social Security. They can pass a law requiring Citizens to provide retirement funds for themselves. Congress is prohibited from providing monies to those Citizens who fail to provide enough retirement funds for their future.
The Congress is prohibited from enacting any law that is general welfare like food stamps or housing subsidies to Citizens. Such acts are in violation of the prohibition on creating different classes of Citizens.
The government may not regulate commerce except about to standard laws on criminality.
The government is prohibited from establishing any programs that give money to Citizens for not working.
Congress is prohibited from passing Continuing Resolutions.
Congress and the States are prohibited from mixing legal and religious activities. For example, marriage has a legal and a religious component.
Any Citizen has standing to challenge Congress over the first use of an Act under a Power. Therefore, for every Bill, Congress must indicate the Power and Act used as the legal basis of the law.
Congress is prohibited from transferring final approval of regulatory law to the Departments of the Executive. Congress must approve every regulatory law of the government.
No Representative nor Senator may hire a person who has previously been voted to serve in the House or the Senate.
No person may be employed by the government in any way who is not a Citizen of the United States.
Congress shall put no limit on the amount of a bank transfer.

Section 12 – Powers Granted to the States
The States shall have the power to tax their Citizens as noted elsewhere.
The States shall oversee the local legal process including voting.
The States shall have the power to call out the Posse Comitatus.
The States shall have the directing of the National Guard except in times of declared War.
The States alone shall have the directing of the Militia.

Section 13 – Census
The initial Census must be completed one year after the ratification of this Constitution.
The census shall be made every subsequent span of ten Years in years ending in zero after the initial census, in such Manner as Congress shall by Law direct with the exceptions noted below. The Representatives in the first Congress after the acceptance of this Constitution shall be apportioned according to the most recent census in the US. If the census available is more than twenty years old, then Representatives will be apportioned in this manner: every State shall receive five Representatives. When the initial Census is completed, Congress shall apportion the new representation in time for the next election. None of the Representatives in the first Congress are permitted to run for Representative in the 2nd Congress.
The census must be an actual count of Citizens with very little detail. No mathematical extrapolations can “true up” the count. If the government wishes to get a snapshot of the wealth, possessions, levels of home ownership and more of all individuals, let the government pay for a comprehensive poll of volunteer Inhabitants. The purpose of a Census is to apportion Representatives and the privacy of the Citizens must be protected. Any person found tampering in any way with the census will receive ten years in jail if convicted.
Any Citizen has the standing to challenge the reliability of the census.

Section 14 – Budget
A full budget must be published every year. An Interim budget must be published every month. No fiscal year may stay open for adjustments for more than one year past its 12th month. If any adjustment needs to be made to a closed budget, the adjustments shall be done in the current budget with an appropriate accounting code. The credits or debits of the adjustment apply to the budget in which it is entered.

Congress is mandated to create detailed rules of procedure for Constitutional and Ratification Conventions. No State shall have the power of Ratification; all ratifications will be by Convention. Here are the main points of the rules that Congress must incorporate into the detailed rules of procedure:
Congress may set the rules for calling a Convention by either of the Houses of Congress, by the States and by the Citizens through a referendum. A Convention shall be ordered to be convened after either of three events:
If a Convention is voted by 70% by both Houses of Congress,
If a Convention is voted by 60% of the States, the voting to be in a manner that the various States shall choose for themselves,
If a public Referendum receives a 55% vote by the Citizens voting and the vote is certified by the rules in the various States.
There must be a time limit on the process of calling for a Convention. For example, the referendum may take a year to organize but no longer else the call for a Convention fails. A similar time limit shall be mandated for the States to call for a Convention.
No State can retract its call for a convention during the time limit set by Congress.
No call for a Convention from the Citizens can be abrogated by any entity.
Congress must choose a location for the Conventions in the middle of the United States.
Congress must set a limit for duration of the Conventions. No Convention shall be permitted to sit longer than one year.
Congress must set rules for the structure of the Conventions and for the rules of procedure in the Conventions except as noted elsewhere in this Constitution.
Congress must set rules for qualifications of attendees.
Constitutional and Ratifying Convention delegates will be composed of one delegate per Representative district and at-large delegates for the State equaling the number of Senators in that state. Delegates may not be: lawyers, politicians, any government employee, no member of a special interest group, no member of a non-governmental organization devoted to lobbying the government, no person who does business with the government in any way. The idea is to choses delegates that have as little to do with government as possible but not Citizens who have no interest in politics. Any Citizen has standing to challenge the qualifications of any Citizen submitting their name to be a delegate. Congress will take care to provide for selecting alternate delegates in the event of sickness, death or some other disabling condition.
The Constitutional Convention must publish their proceedings every day and allow for feedback from the Citizens. Every viewpoint must be given a chance in the court of public opinion.
The Constitution will be published at the end of the Constitutional Convention. The Citizens will have three months from the end of the Constitutional Convention to the beginning of the Ratification Conventions to read the Constitution.
At the end of the three-month period, the delegates to the Ratifying Convention will be selected in open voting by the Citizens. This selection will be limited to one month.
Following the selection of the Ratification delegates will be a one-month period where the Citizens shall meet with their delegates in public meetings to express their concerns and reservations about the proposed amendments.
The Ratification Conventions shall convene five months after the closing of the Constitutional Convention.
Ratification will be by an approval of 2/3 of the States.
Following the Ratifying Convention, any approved amendment(s) will be implemented as instructed elsewhere in this Constitution.

Article 7 – Executive

Qualifications
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 qualified, as follows:
The President and Vice-President shall not be inhabitants of the same state,
No person except a Citizen of the United States from the time of birth, shall be eligible to the Office of President or to the Office of Vice-President,
No person Constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States,
No Person shall be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the age of forty years at the time of inauguration,
No Person shall be eligible to that Office who shall not have been thirty years a Resident within the United States,
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 eligible to be elected to the office of the President more than once.

Term
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 3rd day of January.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
After serving a term of office, the President must sit out a term before offering for election.
After completing a term as President, the President must take a hiatus of five years before offering for employment with any entity or person which does business or has contacts with the government.

The vote for President and Vice-President will be of two components: popular vote of Adult Citizens and a proportional vote by State. The proportional vote shall be: The Senate votes go to the winner of the popular vote in the state. The Representative votes shall go to the winner of the popular vote in each Representative District. The winner of the proportional vote shall be the candidate who gets more than 50% of the proportional vote. The successful candidate must also win the popular vote in at least 50% of the States.
The winner of the vote shall not be by Plurality but by Majority. If there are three or more candidates for President and Vice-President, and no candidate collects the numbers outlined above then there must be a runoff the following week between the top two vote getters. The runoff vote will be conducted over two consecutive days and there will be no early voting. The vote must be held the Tuesday and Wednesday following the first vote.
If no candidate receives both necessary totals, then the election shall go to the new Congress to decide in this manner: Each Representative gets one vote. The Senators shall get one vote. The candidate chosen by most votes in this manner is allowed only one term of office.
To qualify to run for President, the candidate must belong to a political party that received at least 3% of the national vote in the previous federal election. The winner of an election between two candidates must have the most proportional votes and win the popular vote.
Before he enters on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Natural Rights of all its Citizens.”
At the completion of the election, the various States shall send the voting totals for that State to the President to the Senate. The Majority Leader of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. Once counted, the President shall be declared.
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.
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.
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died and the Vice-President shall have died, the Congress sitting jointly may by law declare who shall then act as President, or the way one who is to act shall be selected. While sitting jointly to select a President, each Congressperson shall have one vote. Such a person is to serve one term only. That person is not eligible again for the Office of President.
The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives 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 either 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 Speaker of the House of Representatives 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 Speaker of the House of Representatives 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 at the same time to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives 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.