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 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION $6 5 COMMITTEE OF STYLE PKOCEEDINGS OF CONVENTION REFEKKED TO THE COMMITTEE OF STYLE AND AiKANGEMENT. 1 We the People of the States of New-Hampshire, Massa- chusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Con- necticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following Con- stitution for the Government of Ourselves and our Posterity. ARTICLE I. The stile o{ thls Government shall be, "The United States o� America." II. The Government shall consist of supreme legislative, executive and judicial powers. III. The legislative power shall be vested in a Congress, to consist of two separate and distinct bodies of men, a House of Representatives, and a Senate. The Legislature shall meet at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December unless a different day shall be ap- pointed by law. IV. $ict. I. The Members of the House o{ Representatives 'shall be chosen every second year, by the people of the several states comprehended within this Union.' The qualifications of the electors shall be the same, from time to time, as those of the electors in the several States, of the most numerous branch of their own legislatures. Sect. 2. Every Member of the House of Representatives shall be of the age of twenty-five years at least; shall have been a citizen of the United States for at least seven years before his election; and shall be, at the time of his election, an inhabitant o{ the State in which he shall be chosen. Compiled by the editor from the proceedings of the Convention.

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