HE DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THI
ATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION

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Editors

JOHN P. KAMINSKI

GASPARE J. SALADINO

W E, the People of the United States,
a more perfed Union, efiablifh Juffic
Tranquility, provide for the commol
mote the General Welfare, and fecure
Liberty to Ourfelves and our Poflerity, do or'
States, which (hall confift of a Senate and Houfe of Reprclentatives.
Sea. 2. The Houfe of Reprentatives (hall be compofkd of members chofen every fecond
by the people of the feveral flates, and the cleelors in each flate (hall have the qualifications rc,:
fire for eledors of the moft numerous branch of the late legiflature.
No perfon thall be a repefentativc who fhail not have attained tothe ageof twentr-fiveye2rs,and
been feven years a citizen of the United States, and who thall not, when cleed, be an inhabitant
of that flate in *hich he (hall be c' ofen.
Reprefentatives and direa taxes thall be apportioned among the feveral flates which may be in-
cluded within this Union,according to their refpeaivenumbers, which (hail be determined byadd-
ing to the whole number of free perfons, including thofe bound to fervice for a term of years,
and excludicg Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other perfons. The a&ual enumeration thal!
be made within three years after the firft meeting of the Congrefs of the United States, and withir,
every fub(equent term of ten years, in fuch manner as they thaln by law dire&. The number of
reprefentatives hall not exceed one for every thrty thonfand, but each ftate (ha!! have at leaft on,