Chapter XL.

§1. What high military office has the president? Why is the command of

the public forces intrusted to him?

§2. For what reasons the power to grant reprieves and pardons?

§3. What other powers has the president? For what purposes are treaties

made? Who exercises this power in monarchies? Why is not the house

associated with the president and senate?

§4. For what reasons is the senate preferred? Who appoint embassadors?

§5. By whom and how are treaties negotiated? By whom ratified?

§6. What is here mentioned as the practice of civilized nations? What

are the duties of the secretary of state in our intercourse with foreign

nations?

§7. What titles have representatives at foreign courts? Who are

embassadors _in ordinary_ and _extraordinary_? Envoys? Envoys

_plenipotentiary_?

§8. What are our representatives abroad called? What are _chargès des

affaires_?

§9. What is the business of consuls?

§10. Why is the appointment of judges of the supreme court given to the

president and senate?

§11. For what reason should the president have the right to select the

heads of the departments?

§12. What power has the president alone in filling vacancies? Why is

such a power necessary?

§13. What other powers and duties of the president are mentioned in the

constitution?

§14. What officers are removable by impeachment? and for what offenses?

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