William Floyd, George Wythe, Philip Livingston, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis Morris. Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, jr., NEW JERSEY. Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. NORTH CAROLINA. Thomas Heyward, jr., Thomas Lynch, jr., William Hooper, Arthur Middleton. Joseph Hewes, John Penn. GEORGIA. SOUTH CAROLINA. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Edward Rutledge, George Walton. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. Sec. I.--All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Sec. II.--1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States; and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the State in which he shall be chosen. 3. 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; _Georgia_, three.