Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-05
CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES


establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty tc
ourselves and our posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution fol
the United States of America.
ARTICLE I.
Sec. AL legislative powers herein
granted shall be vested in a Congress Of
the United States, which shall consist
of Senate and House of Representa-
tives.
SEC. Ill. The House of Repre-
sentatives shall be composed of mem
bers chosen every second year, by the
people of the several states; and the
electors in each state shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors oi
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
citizen of the Uuited States, and who
shall not, when elected, be an inhabi-
tant 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 respect
i've members, which shall be determined
by adding to the whole number of free
persons, including those bound to SER
vice for term of years, and excluding
Indians not taxed, three-ffths 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 stbse-
quent term or ten years, in such manner
as they shall by law direct. The num-
Der of Representatives shall not exceed
one for every thirty thousand, but each
state shall have at least one representa-
tive: and until such enumeration shall
be made the state of Ne,o Hampshire
shall be entitled to choose three; Masso-
chusetts, eight; Rhode Island and Propi-
dence plantations, one; Connecticut, five;
Neu York, six; Ne1o Jersey, four; Penn
gzrania, eight; Dcle'oare, one; Maryland,
six; Virginia, ten; North Carolina, five;
South CAROLINA, FIVE; Georgia, three.
f. When vacancies happen in the
representation from any state, the exec
utive authority thereof shall issue writs
of election to fill such vacancies.
5. The House Of Representatives
shall choose their speaker and other Off
GERS, and shall have the sole power of
impeachment.
| SEC. I'LL. The Senate of the
United States shall be composed Of two
senators from each state, chosen by the
| legislature thereof, for six years; and
each senator shall have one vote.
| 2. Immediately after they shall be
assembled in consequence Of the first
election, they shall be divided as equally
as may be, into three classes. The seats
of the sena .ors of the first class shall be
vacated at the expiration of the second
year, of the second class at the explra-
ton of the fourth year, and the third
class at the expiration of the sixth year,
SO that one third may be chosen every
second year; and if vacancies happen by
resignation or otherwise, during the re-
cess of the Legislature of any state, the
executive thereof may make temporary
appointments until the next meeting of
the legislature, which shall then fill
vacancies.
3. No person shall be a senator
who shall not have attained the age OF
thirty years, and been nine years citi-
zen of the United States, and who shall
not, when elected, be an inhabitant OF
that state for which he shall be chosen.
4. The Vice President Of the United
States shall be President of the Senate,
but shall have no vote, unless they be
equally divided.
5. The Senate shall choose their other
officers. and president pro tempore in
the absence of the Vice President, or
when he shall exercise the Office OF
President of the United States.
6. The Senate shall have the sole
power to try all peachments. When
sitting for that purpose, they shall be
on oath or affirmation. When the Pres
ident of the United States is tried, the
Chief Justice shall preside, and no per-
son shall be convicted without the con-
currence of two-t thirds of the members
present.
T. Judgment in cases Of impeachment
shall not extend further than to removal
from office, and isqualiGcation to hold
and enjoy any Office Of honor, trust, OF
profit, under the United States; but the
party convicted shall, nevertheless, be
liable and subject to Indictment, trial
Judgment, and punishment according tc
law.
Sec. IV.-1. The times, places, and
manner of holding elections for senators
and representatives shall be prescribed
in each state, by the Legislature thereof
but the Congress may, at any time, by
law, make or alter such regulations, ex-
cept as to the places Of choosing sena
tors.
2 The Congress shall assemble a
least once in every year; and such meet
ing shall be on the first Monday in De
ce mber, unless they shall by law ap
point different day.
SEC. vi. Each house shall bt
Judge ofthe elections, returns and qualif
cations Of it's own members; and maj or
ity of each shall constitute a quorum tt
do business; but a smaller number may ad
journ from day to day, and may be au
thorized to compel the attendance o
absent members, in such manner, ant
under such penalties as each house may
provide.
2. Each house may determine tn,
rules Of its proceedings, punish its mem
bers for disorderly behavior, and will
the concurrence Of wothirds, expel Z;
member
3. Each house shall keep Journa
of its proceedings, and from time tt
time publish the same, excepting sucl
narts nc NAV In their Indictment renni T.,