HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 17, 1787, AND SINCE RATIFIED BY WITH THE AMENDMENTS THERETO: TO WHICH ARE ADDED, STANDING RULES AND ORDERS FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES. PRINTED BY CRDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON: THOMAS ALLEN, PRINTER. 1838. CONSTITUTION. We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establishi this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. SECTION I. All Legislative powers herein granted shall Congress. be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION II. sen. The House of Representatives shall be com- Representaposed of members chosen every second year tives, how choby the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature. No person shall be a Representative who Qualification shall not have attained to the age of twentyof Representafive years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. resentatives Representatives and direct taxes shall be Apportionapportioned among the several States which ment of Repmay be included within this Union, according and direct to their respective numbers, which shall be taxes. |