494 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Tuesday JOURNAL September 4 ture may direct, a number of Electors equal to the whole number of Senators, and Members of the House of represen- tatives to which the State may be entitled in the legislature. The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves. -- and they shall make a list of all the Persons voted for, and of the num- ber of votes for each, which list they shall sign and certify? and transmit sealed to the seat of the general Government, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall in that House open all the certificates, and the votes shall be then and there counted --The Person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of (the whole number) ? of the Electors (appointed> ? and if there be. more than One, who have such Majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the Senate shall <immediately)4 choose by bal- lot one of them for President: but if no Person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list, the Senate shall choose by ballot the President--and in every case after the choice of the President, the Person having the greatest number of votes shall be Vice President: but if there should remain two or more, who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them the Vice President. The Legislature may determine the time of chusing and assembling the Electors, and the manner of certifying and transmitting their votes. Sect. 2. No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the U.S. at the time of the adoption of this Con- stitution shall be eligible to the office of President: nor shall any Person be elected to that office, who shall be under the age of 35 years, and who has not been in the whole, at least 14 years a resident within the U.S. 2 In place of "that" crossed out. None of the other copies of this report includes the words "the whole number", but there seems to be no record of a later amendment inserting them. a "appointed ", an amendment of September 5- 4 "immediately", an amendment o{ September 6.
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