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most ardent wish-With great respeA,We nave the honour to be*SIR,Your Excellency’s mostObedient and humble servants,GEORGE WASHINGTON, President.By unanimous order of the Con-vention,His Excellency the President of Congress.WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfeA union, establish justice, insure 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 establishthis Constitution for the United States of America.ARTICLE I.4SeU. I. All legislative powers herein granted, shall be vested in a Congreesofthe United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.Seel. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second year, by the people of the several States, anu the Electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for EleAors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.No person shall be a Representative, who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the' United States, and who shall not when eleAed be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be cho-Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behaviour, and, with tlje cpncurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy j and the years and days of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.Neither House, during, the Session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Housesshall be sitting.Secf?. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation ipr their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from theand for any speech or debate in eithersamesen.Representatives and dire£t taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respeftive numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service fora term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-iifths of all other persons. The aAual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress 'of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direA. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, buteach State shall have at least one Representative;and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, ConneAicut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six. Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolinafive, and Georgia three.When vacancies happen to the representationHouse, they shall not be questioned in any other place.No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was eleAed, be appointed to any civil office under' the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emolument whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a memberof either House during his continuance in office.Se£i. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.■AEvery bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives, and tfee Senate, shall, beforeit become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it with his objeions to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objeions at large on thetr journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objeions, to the other House, by which it shall likewise bereconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases, the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the na.mea of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not'be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, theSOLD by T. Wilkie, Corner of Exeter ’Change, in the Strand; where Advertisements and C
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Wed, Oct 31, 1787
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