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Page 5 - Congress a statement showing the whole number of persons In each State, excluding Indians not taxed, as ascertained under the seventeenth and each subsequent decennial census of the population, and the number of Representatives to which each State would be entitled under an apportionment of the then existing number of Representatives by the method known as the method of equal proportions, no State to receive less than one Member.
Page 3 - Provided nevertheless, That the operation of the laws of the state within such district shall not be affected by this acceptance, until the time fixed for the removal of the government thereto, and until Congress shall otherwise by law provide.
Page 5 - Congress and of each fifth Congress thereafter, the President shall transmit to the Congress a statement showing the whole number of persons In each State...
Page 1 - Article I, section 4, provides: "The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof, but Congress may at any time, by law, make and alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
Page 3 - An act for establishing the temporary and permanent Seat of the Government of the United States...
Page 5 - Section 2 of article I reads, in pertinent part : ''The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States." A reading of the contemporaneous material demonstrates that the word "People" was not used accidentally ; the House was intended to represent the people rather than the States." In the heart of the Convention debate between large and small States on the form of representation in Congress, William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut...
Page 3 - Administration is authorized to examine, investigate, and make a complete study of any and all matters pertaining to: (1) the election of the President, Vice President, or Members of Congress; (2) corrupt practices; (3) contested elections; (4) credentials and qualifications; (5) Federal elections generally, and (6) Presidential succession.
Page 5 - Article I, section 2 of the Constitution, provides : "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.

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