Edw. Gilbert,

Miguel D. Pedrorena, Henry Hill,

M. M. McCarver, J. D. Hoppe,

Antonio Ma. Pico, Joseph Hobson, Jacinto Rodriguez, Julian Hanks,

Hugh Reid, H. W. Halleck,

J. A. Sutter, L. W. Hastings,

Jacob R. Snyder, J. McHenry Hollinsworth, Winfield Scott Sherwood, Jas. McHall Jones, William E. Shannon, Thomas 0. Larkin, Abel Stearns, Francis J. Lippitt, P. Sansevaine, Benj. S. Lippincott, Wm. M. Steuart, Benj. F. Moore, Henry A. Tefft, Rodman M. Price, M. G. Vallejo, Jno. McDougall, Thos. L. Vermeule, Man'l Dominguez,

J. P. Walker, Myron Norton,

0. M. Wozencraft. Pacificus Ord,

THE

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

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CONTENTS.

Preamble.

ARTICLE I.
Sec. 1.-Legislative power vested in Congress.

Senate and House of Legislature.
Sec. 2.-1. Representatives, election of.

qualification of electors
2. Qualifications of members.
3. Apportionment of Representatives.

of direct taxes.
Census to be taken decennially.
Ratio of representation.
4. Vacancies in representation.

Executive to order election to fill.
5. House to choose its own officers.

to have sole power of impeachment. Sec. 3.–1. Senate, of what composed.

Senators, how and when chosen.

each to have one yote.
2. Senators to be divided into three classes.

first class to vacate in two years.
second class in four years.
third class at end of sixth year.
one-third to be chosen every second

year.
vacancies during recess to be tempo-

rarily filled.
3. Qualifications for Senator.

thirty years of age.
nine years a citizen.
to be inhabitant of State for which
chosen.