Constitution Of The United States Of America With The Amendements Thereto To Which Are Added Jeffersons Manual Of Parliamentary Practice The Standing Rules And Orders For Conducting Business In The House Of Representatives And Senate Of The United States And Barcelays Digest

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Download or read book Constitution of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Constitution of the United States of America: With the Amendments Thereto: To Which Are Added Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, and the Standing Rules and Orders; For Conducting Business in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States 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 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 enumeration shall 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 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.