a quorum for this purpose, and a majority of the whole is necessary to a choice.

The same qualifications are required for vice-president as for president.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR PRESIDENT.

To be eligible to the office of a representative, as we have seen, a person must be 25 years of age, and must have been seven years a citizen of the United States.

To be eligible to the office of senator, a person must be 30 years of age, and must have been nine years a citizen of the United States.

The office of president being the highest office in the United States, a further degree of qualification is necessary to render a person eligible to that office. The president therefore must be a natural born citizen of the United States. He must have been fourteen years a resident of the United States, and also must be 35 years of age.

If the presidential chair becomes vacant during a presidential term, the vice-president then takes his place and acts as president. If the vice-president,

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What are the qualifications for a senator?

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If the presidential chair becomes vacant who succeeds to the office of president?

when acting as president, should resign, die, or be impeached, the president of the senate pro tempore would then perform the duties of president of the United States.

If he should fail, then the duties of the president would devolve on the speaker of the house of representatives, until a new president should be elected.

The salary of the president is $25,000 per year. The salary of the vice-president is $8,000 per year.

POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT.

The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the states when called into the service of the United States. The president is the chief executive of the nation, and is always ready to act promptly and efficiently, and it is to be presumed wisely. Congress alone can declare war, but the president commands the army as soon as it is declared. He is not obliged to command in person, but may authorize another to command in his place.

In Great Britain the king is not only commander

If the vice-president should then die, who would act as president? And if the president of the senate should fail, who then would act as president?

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in-chief of the army, navy, and militia, but can declare war, and then raise armies and navies, and call forth the militia to carry it on.

Laws cannot be made so as exactly to meet every case. When reputation, liberty and life are at stake it becomes a matter of the highest importance to the offender that no more than justice be done him. He may have violated the law ignorantly, or he may have reformed. New testimony proving him innocent, or greatly mitigating his crime, may have been discovered since sentence was passed.

To meet such and similar cases the power of granting reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in impeachment cases, is lodged in the hands of the president.

The president negotiates all treaties, but two-thirds of the senators present must concur, by yeas and nays, or the treaty is void. Thus at the session of congress in 1843-4, President Tyler entered into a treaty of annexation with Texas, but the senate refused to ratify it, and therefore it could not take ef fect.

The president nominates all ambassadors, and other public ministers, consuls, all judges of the supreme court, and all other officers out of the United

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States, not provided for in the constitution, but all such nominations must be approved by the senate.

If the senate rejects the person nominated, the president nominates another, or re-nominates the same. The appointment is not fully made till the president has nominated, the senate approved, and the president has signed the commission.

In England, the king alone makes all the treaties of peace, alliance, commerce, and treaties of every kind. He also appoints all foreign ministers, ambassadors, &c.

The president having the general care and oversight of the interests of the nation, both foreign and domestic, is required "to give information to congress from time to time of the state of the union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Accordingly, as soon as congress has met and organized, the president sends in his annual MESSAGE. And also, during the session of congress, the president sends in other messages.

Occasions may arise during the recess of congress, such as foreign invasion, national calamities, insurrections, &c., when the safety of the nation requires immediate action. The constitution therefore provides

Must they all be approved by the senate?

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Of what is the president from time to time to give information to congress?

that "the president may convene both houses of congress, or either of them, on extraordinary occasions."

An extra session of congress was called in this way by John Adams, in 1797, by James Madison, in 1809, by Martin Van Buren, in 1837, and by General Harrison, in 1841.

The king of England has power to prorogue, in other words, to adjourn parliament at any time. But the president of the United States can adjourn congress only in case of disagreement between the two houses as to the time of adjournment.

The president receives all ambassadors and public ministers from foreign governments.

The president is also required to see that the laws of the United States be faithfully executed, and to commission all officers of the United States.

The following is a list of the presidents and vicepresidents of the United States.

1. George Washington, Va., inaugurated April 30, 1789, President 8 years. John Adams, Mass., VicePresident 8 years.

2. John Adams, Mass., inaugurated March 4, 1797,

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