CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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.

SECTION 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be rested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

SEC. 2. 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 Qualification requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

- No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to 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 that State in which he shall be chosen.

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 (29)

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SECTION 1. The Governor, Judges of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the Superior Courts, and all other officers of this State, (except Justices of the Peace and Militia officers.) may be impeached for wilfully violating any Article of the Constitution,

mal-administration, or corruption. Judgment, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under this State; but the party convicted may, nevertheless, be liable to indictmen trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law. The House of Commons shall have the sole power peachment. The Senate shall have the sole power impeachments; no person shall be convicted upon ar ment, unless two-thirds of the Senators present such conviction; and before the trial of any in members of the Senate shall take an oath or and impartially to try and determine the according to evidence.

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ously taken the oaths of office in the presence of the members of both branches of the General Assembly, or before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who, in case the Governor elect should be prevented from attendance before the General Assem bly, by sickness or other unavoidable cause, is authorised to administer the same.

ARTICLE III.

SECTION 1. The Governor, Judges of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the Superior Courts, and all other officers of this State, (except Justices of the Peace and Militia officers,) may be impeached for wilfully violating any Article of the Consti tution, mal-administration, or corruption.

Judgment, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend furth than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under this State: the party convicted may, nevertheless, be liable to indic trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law.

The House of Commons shall have the sole pow
peachment. The Senate shall have the sole powe
impeachments: no person shall be convicted upon a
ment, unless two-thirds of the Senators present s
sae'r conviction; and before the trial of any im
metabers of the Senate shall take an oath or
and unpartially to try and determine the c
according to evidence.

SEC. 2. Ary Judge of the Supreme Co
rior Courts, may be removed from office f
inalty uron a concurrent resolution
bean Les of the General Assembly. The
the Legislature may be about to proce
thereof accompanied by a copy of the
removal, at least twenty days before t
besnen of the General Assembly shall
The saares of the Judges of the
Supertar Courts, shall not be dim
ance in dies

SECTION 1. No Convention of the People shall be called by General Assembly, unless by t1 -the members of each House No part of the Constitutic less a Bill to alter the same each House of the General ths of the whole nu all any alteration tak we been published six embers to the General A me alteration proposed b hall be agreed to in the ✓f the whole represents sembly, after the same Leveral days, in eac shall prescribe a ments may be s Commons thre votes given i of the voter the same s