Section 1

The People delegate executive power to a President, who will serve in office for four years. Alongside the President, there is an assistant called the Vice President.

A. Election and Qualifications

A.1. Terms

The President and Vice President serve concurrent four-year terms, which can each be renewed once, and the total number of years permitted in either office is ten years, whether served consecutively or not.

A.2. Election and Qualifications

The President and Vice President are elected independently from one another, via the ranked choice balloting scheme outlined in Article VI of this Charter. Neither Congress nor any other body has the power to join the Presidential and Vice Presidential ballots in any way. A Presidential candidate may not declare a Vice Presidential running mate. Both offices are elected by a popular vote of the People, held during the usual national election and settled by ranked choice voting as explained in this Charter.

Both the President and the Vice President must:

1. Be natural-born citizens;

2. Be at least thirty-five, and no older than seventy-five;

3. Be eligible to stand for and hold federal office;

4. Not be a convicted felon, even if pardoned or restored; and

5. Be a resident of the United States for fourteen years, at least ten of which must be contiguous to the beginning of their term of office.

If the President or Vice President becomes ineligible to hold office because one of these qualifications is no longer met. In that case, they are permitted a one-hundred-eighty-day appeal period to rectify any questions surrounding those circumstances. If they remain ineligible at the end of the appeal period, they are summarily removed from office.

B. Vacancies and Succession

If the President dies, resigns, is removed from office, or is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the Presidency, those powers and responsibilities pass to the Vice President. Should the same circumstances extend to the Vice President, then to the Leader of the Senate, then to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Congress may designate by law the succession beyond the Speaker, but must ensure that all Persons in the line of succession otherwise meet the qualifications and requirements of the Presidency.

If the Vice President resigns or is required to assume the Presidency, the Leader of the Senate will fill the Vice Presidency, and the Senate will elect a new Leader according to the rules of that body.

If the President is temporarily incapacitated, the Vice President assumes the duties of the Presidency until the President can resume their regular duties.

C. Assumption of Office and Receipt of Commission

The President-elect becomes the President at 12:01 p.m. in the Nation’s Capital on January 20th in the year following the Presidential election. If the President-elect dies before taking office, the same succession rules apply as if they had died while serving as President.

Before any Person assumes the office of President or Vice President, they must swear or affirm:

“I (full legal name) solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States (or Vice President), and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the National Charter of the United States and remain true to its central tenet that the People are the Sovereign Power. I understand and affirm that I hold this office and exercise the powers, duties, and privileges it requires and grants only because the People have delegated those things to me.”

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court must publicly administer this oath or affirmation.