UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.
By the Constitution of 1787, and subsequent amendments the Government is entrusted to three separate authorities—the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. The first is vested in a President elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November every leap year for four years by electors appointed by each separate state. The number of such electhrs is equal to the number of senators and representatives to which the State is entitled in Congress : but no senator or representative can be an elector. The President is commandant of the national forces, and las a veto on all laws passed by Congress although a bill may become law in spite of his veto, on being afterwards passed by a twothirds majority of each House of Congress. The ariministrtion is conducted under the immediate authority of the President by eight ministers chosen by him, and holding office at his pleasure, though confirmed by the Senate. A Vice President is chosen in the same manner as the President; he is esefficio President of the Senate, and in case cf the death or resignation of the President he assumes his office for the remainder of his term, and the senate elects a temporary vice-president,
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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 20, 18 October 1901, Page 4
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