CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.



                                     PREA-MXBLE.
WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,
establish
  justice, insure domestic tranquility, 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 Congress
of the
United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
  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 in 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 serv-
ice 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 Con-
gress of the 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 Representative; and
until such enu-
meration shallhbe made, the State of NYew Hampshire shall be entitled to
choose three,
Mfassachutsetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Conneeticut
five, New
York sixi, Nsw Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six,
Virginia ten,
NZorth Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
  When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the executive
authority
thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
  The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers,
and shall have
the sole power of impeachment.
  SECTION 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators
from
each State, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each senator
shall have
one vote.
  Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election,
they shall
be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators
of the first
class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year; of the second
class, at the
expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class, at the expiration
of the sixth year, so
that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by
resignation or
otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any State, the executive
thereof may
make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which
shall then
fill such vacancies.
- No person shall be a Senator, who shall not have attained to the age of
thirty years, and
been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected,
be an
;inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
  The Vice President of the United States shallhbe President of the Senate,
but shall have no
vote unless they be equally divided.
  The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro
tempore in the
-absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President
of the United
States.
  The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting
for that
tpurpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the
United States is