Term length and compensation limits

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The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 2 primary

United States. Constitutional Convention · 1787-07-19 to 1787-09-17 (convention debates recorded; excerpts reflect entries in the official journal as presented here)
Act to which the States by their Legislatures, make themselves parties, becomes a compact from which no one of the parties can recede of itself. > Section. 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the

It establishes the executive branch and the presidential election system: a four-year term, state-appointed electors, ballot voting for president and vice president, contingency selection by the House by states, eligibility rules, succession from president to vice president, compensation limits, and an oath to preserve and defend the Constitution.

United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or…