History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2: With Notices of Its Principle FramersCurtis, George Ticknor
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History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2: With Notices of Its Principle Framers
Curtis, George Ticknor
Constitutional history -- United States
"3. _Resolved_, That the members of the first branch of the
legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States
for the term of two years; to be paid out of the public treasury; to
receive an adequate compensation for their services; to be of the age
of twenty-five years at least; to be ineligible to, and incapable of
holding, any office under the authority of the United States, (except
those peculiarly belonging to the functions of the first branch,)
during the term of service of the first branch.
"4. _Resolved_, That the members of the second branch of the
legislature of the United States ought to be chosen by the individual
legislatures; to be of the age of thirty years at least; to hold their
offices for six years, one third to go out biennially; to receive a
compensation for the devotion of their time to the public service; to
be ineligible to, and incapable of holding, any office under the
authority of the United States, (except those peculiarly belonging to
the functions of the second branch,) during the term for which they
are elected, and for one year thereafter.
"5. _Resolved_, that each branch ought to possess the right of
originating acts.
"6. _Resolved_, That the national legislature ought to possess the
legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation; and,
moreover, to legislate in all cases for the general interests of the
Union, and also in those to which the States are separately
incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be
interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation.
"7. _Resolved_, That the legislative acts of the United States, made
by virtue and in pursuance of the Articles of Union, and all treaties
made and ratified under the authority of the United States, shall be
the supreme law of the respective States, as far as those acts or
treaties shall relate to the said States, or their citizens and
inhabitants; and that the judiciaries of the several States shall be
bound thereby in their decisions, anything in the respective laws of
the individual States to the contrary notwithstanding.
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