Category: House of Representatives
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Vacancies
House of Representatives – VacanciesWhen vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.ResourcesNotes and ReferencesThis text about <a href="http://lawi.us/constitution-of-the-united-states-of…
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Impeachment
House of Representatives – Officers and Powers of ImpeachmentThe House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment….
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Qualifications of Members of Congress
Qualifications of Members of CongressNo 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 the State in which he shall be chosen….
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House of Representatives
The House of Representatives in the Constitution wording"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…
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Elector Qualifications
House of Representatives: Elector QualificationsIt was the original constitutional scheme to vest the determination of qualifications for electors in congressional elections 1 solely in the discretion of the states, save only for the express requirem…
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Apportionment
Apportionment of Seats In the House of Representatives[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 tho…
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Census
House of Representatives – The Census RequirementThe Census Clause "reflects several important constitutional determinations: that comparative state political power in the House would reflect comparative population, not comparative wealth; that comparative power would shift every 10 years to re…
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Congressional Districting
House of Representatives: Congressional DistrictingA major innovation in constitutional law in recent years has been the development of a requirement that election districts in each state be structured so that each elected representative represents substantially equal populations.<a name=t1 href=#f1…