Section 1:

All lawmaking powers here shall be done in a assembly of the United States, which will be made of a Senate and House of Representatives.


Section 2:

The House of Representatives will be made of members chosen every other year by the people of the United States, and the people electing in each state will have the training required for electors of the most abundant branch of the state legislature.

No person will be a Representative that has not reached the age of twenty five years, and has been a citizen for seven years in the United States. When elected the representative must be a part of the state he/she is representing.

Representatives and direct taxes will be split up among the states, according to their own numbers, which will be found by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those attached to service for many years, and not including Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The real record will be made within three years after the first meeting of the assembly of the United States, and within every successive term of ten years, in such style as they will by law direct. The number of Representatives will not go over one for person for every thirty thousand people, but each state will have at least one Representative; and until such records will be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the president’s power will hold an election to fill such vacancies.

The House of Representatives will choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the individual power of impeachment.


Section 3:

The Senate of the United States shall be made of two Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.

Straight away after they shall be assembled in significance 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 conclusion of the second year, of the second class at the conclusion of the fourth year, and the third class at the conclusion 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 a citizen of that state for which he shall be chosen.

The Vice President of the United States shall be 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 want 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 purpose, they shall be on oath or statement. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall supervise: And no person shall be convicted without the harmony of two thirds of the members present.

Judgment in cases of finger pointing shall not make bigger further than to removal from office, and exclusion to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall on the other hand be legally responsible and subject to comment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.

 


Section 4:

    The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, will be arranged in each state by the legislature; but the Congress may at any time by law make or change such rules, except as to the places of choosing Senators.

The Congress will assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting will be on the first Monday in December, unless they will by law hired a different day.


Section 5:

    Each House will be the judge of the elections, returns and training of its own members, and a bulk of each will make up an area to do business; but a smaller number may put off from day to day, and may be approved to make the attendance of missing members, and under such penalties as each House may supply.

Each House may agree on the rules of its records, punish its members for wild behavior, and, with the harmony of two thirds, drive out a member.

Each House will keep a journal of its actions, and from time to time print the same, excepting such parts as may in their decision call for silence; and the yes’s and no’s of the members of either House on any question will, at the yearning of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.

Neither House, during the session of Congress, will, without asking of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses will be sitting.


Section 6:

     The Senators and Representatives will receive a reward for their services and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They will in all cases, except betrayal, crime and fall foul of of the peace, be disadvantaged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or wonder in either House, they will not be questioned in any other place.

No Senator or Representative will, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any public workplace under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his persistence in office.


Section 7:

All bills for raising revenue shall start off in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may offer or see eye to eye with amendments as on other Bills.

Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall be presented to the President of the United States; if he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to review it. After reviewing two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reviewed, and if approved by two thirds of that House, will become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses will be found by yeas and nays, and the names 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, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their break avoid its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

Every order, pledge, or vote to which the harmony of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be re-passed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations set in the case of a bill.


Section 8:

The Congress will have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be the same through the whole United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To control trade with far-off nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value, and of overseas coins, and make the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the penalty of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To set up post offices and post roads;

To help the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the limited right to their own writings and discoveries;

To make up trials lower to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish pirates and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To state war, grant letters of marquee and payback, and make rules about captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no stealing of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and rule of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the armed force to perform the laws of the union, hold back insurrections and keep away invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and punishing, the armed force, and for leading such part of them as may be working in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the meeting of the officers, and the authority of training the armed force according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise elite legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the creation of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

To make all laws which shall be required and proper for carrying into carrying out the previous powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.


Section 9:

The migration or introduction of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not over and above ten dollars for each person.

The benefit of the court order of habeas corpus shall not be on the brink, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in amount to the survey or details in this before directed to be taken.

No tax or duty shall be laid on articles take  from any state.

No inclination shall be given by any regulation of exchange or income to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be thankful to enter, clear or pay duties in another.

No money shall be strained from the treasury, but in result of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.

No title of dignity shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.


Section 10:

No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or merger; grant letters of marquee and payback; coin money; produce bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of dignity.

No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary putting out it's inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.

No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or connect in war, unless actually invaded, or in such forthcoming danger as will not admit of delay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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