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
Constitutional law -- United States; Constitutions -- United States; United States. Constitution
Sect. 4. The Senate shall chuse its own President and other
officers.
VI
Sect. 1. The times and places and manner of holding the
elections of the members of each House shall be prescribed by
the Legislature of each State; but their provisions concerning
them may, at any time, be altered by the Legislature of the
United States.
Sect. 2. The Legislature of the United States shall have
authority to establish such uniform qualifications of the
members of each House, with regard to property, as to the said
Legislature shall seem expedient.
Sect. 3. In each House a majority of the members shall
constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may
adjourn from day to day.
Sect. 4. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns
and qualifications of its own members.
Sect. 5. Freedom of speech and debate in the Legislature shall
not be impeached or questioned in any Court or place out of the
Legislature; and the members of each House shall, in all cases,
except treason felony and breach of the peace, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at Congress, and in going to
and returning from it.
Sect. 6. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings;
may punish its members for disorderly behaviour; and may expel a
member.
Sect. 7. The House of Representatives, and the Senate, when it
shall be acting in a legislative capacity, shall keep a journal
of their proceedings, and shall, from time to time, publish
them: and the yeas and nays of the members of each House, on any
question, shall at the desire of one-fifth part of the members
present, be entered on the journal.
Sect. 8. Neither House, without the consent of the other, shall
adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than
that at which the two Houses are sitting. But this regulation
shall not extend to the Senate, when it shall exercise the
powers mentioned in the ---- article.
Sect. 9. The members of each House shall be ineligible to, and
incapable of holding any office under the authority of the
United States, during the time for which they shall respectively
be elected: and the members of the Senate shall be ineligible
to, and incapable of holding any such office for one year
afterwards.
Sect. 10. The members of each House shall receive a compensation
for their services, to be ascertained and paid by the State, in
which they shall be chosen.
Sect. 11. The enacting stile of the laws of the United States
shall be, "Be it enacted by the Senate and Representatives in
Congress assembled."
Sect. 12. Each House shall possess the right of originating
bills, except in the cases beforementioned.
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