When the fathers of this country were writing the document that was later to be known as "the most perfect document", they were designing the framework of how the country's government would operate. One of their priorities was to create a system that consisted of branches of government, with each branch having some kind of power to check the others. This would keep the power balanced. Article II deals specifically with one of these branches: the executive branch.
In the United States, the powers in the executive branch are given to a President. The President is elected for terms of four years. The same goes for his second-in-commmand, the Vice President. In Section 1 of Article II, the specific process for how the President and Vice President are elected is clearly laid out. …
