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January 8, 2011

Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 2

Let's Read the Constitution!
Hatched by Dafydd

The first thing that the Founders chose to describe was the Congress. We start with the most basic rules: How Congress is composed, which is the chamber closest to the people, and who can be one of them...

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Section 1 - The Legislature

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.

Section 2 - The House

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.

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.

Note a couple of interesting points. First, what does it mean that the electors shall have certain qualifications? Who the heck are these "electors"? Did early citizens not vote directly for their federal representatives? Why not?

Second, note that naturalized Americans can be elected to Congress; yet we know that they cannot be elected president or vice president. Why the disparity?

All verses in the Lizardian Constitutional Collection:

  1. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 1 (Preamble)

  2. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 2 (Congress; House, part I)

  3. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 3 (House, part II)

  4. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 4 (Senate, part I)

  5. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 5 (Senate, part II)

  6. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 6 (General congressional admin stuff)

  7. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 7 (Legislative process and enumerated powers)

  8. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 8 (Limitations)

  9. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 9 (The prez -- who does he think he is?)

  10. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 10 (What would a president do?)

  11. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 11 (Judiciary)

  12. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 12 (States, part I)

  13. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 13 (States, part 2)

  14. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 14 (Amendment; supreme law of the land)

  15. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 15 (Ratification rules and signers)

  16. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 16 (Amendments: Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-4)

  17. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 17 (Bill of Rights -- Courtroom Amendments 5-8)

  18. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 18 (Bill of Last Rights 9 and 10)

  19. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 19 (Amendments: Suing other states, president vs. vice president)

  20. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 20 (Amendments: Abolition of slavery)

  21. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 21 (Amendments: States prohibited from infringing rights)

  22. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 22 (Amendments: Racial voting rights)

  23. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 23 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism I)

  24. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 24 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism II)

  25. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 25 (Amendments: Rooseveltian amendments)

  26. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 26 (Amendments: Camelot amendments)

  27. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 27 (Amendments: Panacea amendments)

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, January 8, 2011, at the time of 12:00 AM

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