CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.



                            PREAMBLE.
Wx, the people of the United States, In order to form a more perfect union,
  establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common
  defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty
  to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution
  for the United States of America.

                             ARTICLE I.
  SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Con-
gress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and Rouse of
Itepresentatives.
  SEcTIoN 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members
chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors
!n each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors for the
most
numerous branch of the State legislature.
  No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the age
of twenty-five 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.
  Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several
States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective
numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free
persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding
indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration
shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress
of thu
United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner
as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed
one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at least one Repre-
sentative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hamp-
shire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island
and
Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, NewJersey four,
Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Caro-
lina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
  When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the execu.
tive authority thereof shall issuewrits of election to fill such vacancies.
  The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other of-
flbers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment.