The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 2Madison, James
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The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 2
Madison, James
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[16] Madison's printed copy is marked: "As Reported by Com^e of
Detail viz of five. Aug. 6. 1787." It is a large folio of
seven pages. In the enumeration of the Articles by a
misprint VI. was repeated, and the alterations in Article
VII. and succeeding articles were made by Madison. In Sect.
II of Article VI., as it was printed, it appeared: "The
enacting stile of the laws of the United States shall be.
'Be it enacted and it is hereby enacted by the House of
Representatives, and by the Senate of the United States, in
Congress assembled,'" which Madison altered to read: "The
enacting stile of the laws of the United States shall be.
'Be it enacted by the Senate & representatives, in Congress
assembled.'" The printed copy among the Madison papers is a
duplicate of the copy filed by General Washington with the
papers of the Constitution, and Sec. II is there given as
actually printed.--_Journal of the Federal Convention_, 219.
(Const. MSS.)
Madison accurately transcribed the report for his journal
and it is this copy which is used in the text.
"We the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare,
and establish the following Constitution for the Government of
Ourselves and our Posterity.
ARTICLE I
The stile of the Government shall be, "The United States of
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; each of which shall in all cases
have a negative on the other. The Legislature shall meet on the
first Monday in December in every year.
IV
Sect. 1. The members of the House of 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 in the United States for at least three years before his
election; and shall be, at the time of his election, a resident
of the State in which he shall be chosen.
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