power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the United States, fo that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of fix months, and fhall publish the journal of their proceedings monthly, except fuch parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances, or mili! tary operations, as in their judgment require fecrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each ftate on any question fhall be entered on the journal, when it is defired by any delegate; and the delo gates of aftate, or any of them, at his or their requeft fhall be furnished with a tranfcript of the faid journal, except fuch parts as are above excepted, to day before the legiflatures of the feveral ftates.dut

X: The committee of the states, or any nine of thein, thall be authorized to execute, in the recefs of congrefs, fuch of the powers of congrefs as the United States in ongrefs affembled, by the cons fent of nine States, fhall from time to times think expedient to veft them with; provided that no power be delegated to the faid committee for the exercise of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine ftates, in the congrefs of the United States affembled, is requifite.dius of bus

XI. Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the meafures of the United States, fhall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union but no other colony fhall be admit beranda guns Lan ghee Dvated

ted into the fame, unless fuch admiffion be agreed to by nine ftates.

OXILAll bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed, and debts contracted by, or under the au thority of congrefs, before the affembling of the United States, in pursuance of the prefent confederation, fhall be deemed and confidered as a chargé against the United States, for payment and fatisfaction whereof the faid United States and the public faith are hereby folemly pledged.

-XIII. Every state shall abide by the determina tions of the United States in congrefs affembled, one alloquestions which by this confederation are fubmitted to them. And the articles of this confederation fhall be inviolably obferved by every ftate, and the union fhall be prepetual; nor fhall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unlefs fuch alteration be agreed to in a congrefs of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every ftate.

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And whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we refpectively reprefent in congrefs, to approve of, and to authorise us to ratify the faid articles of confederation and perpetual union: Know ye, that we, the underfigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do, by thefe prefents, in the name and behalf of our refpective conftituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm

confirm each and every of the faid articles of confederation and perpetual union, and all and fingular the matters and things therein contained. And we do further folemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress affembled, on all questions which by the faid confederation are fubmitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the ftates we respectively reprefent; and that the union fhall be perpetual. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands in congrefs.

Done at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennfylvania, the 1 9th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1778, and Pin the third year of the independence of America.

WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES,

in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domeftic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and fecure the bleffings of liberty to ourselves and our pofterity, do ordain and establish this conftitution of the United States of America.

Sect. 1. All legiflative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congrefs of the United States, which fhall consist of a fenate and house of reprefentatives.

Sect. 2. The house of reprefentatives fhall be compofed of members chofen every fecond year by the people of the several states, and the electors in

each

each state shall have the qualifications requifite for electors of the moft numerous branch of the state legiflature.

No perfon fhall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been feven years a citizen of the United States, and who fhall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that ftate in which he thall be chofen."

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Reprefentatives and direct taxes fhall be apportioned among the several states which may which may be included within this union, according to their refpective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free perfons, including thofe bound to fervice for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other perfons. The actual enumeration fhall be made within three years after the firft ineeting of the congrefs of the United States, and within fubfequent term of ten years, in fuch manner as they fhall by law direct. The number of reprefentatives fhall not exceed one for every thirty thoufand, but each ftate fhall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New-Hampshire fhall be entitled to chufe three, Maffachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York fix, New-Jerfey four, Pennfylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland fix, Virginia ten, North-Carolina five, South-Carolina five, and Georgia three.

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