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.
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 one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
Interpretation
The H of R shall be chosen every second year by the people of the states, and those elected shall have the qualifications that are deemed required by the largest branch of that particular state's legislature. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.
To be a Representative, one must be 25, a citizen of the United States for at least seven years, and must reside in the state s/he is to be elected to.
Members of the House of Representatives as well as direct taxes shall be equally divided among the states in the union in numbers determined by adding the number of all free persons, excluding Indians who are not taxed, and three fifths of all other persons. This count will be taken within three years after the first meeting of Congress and every ten years after. This will be done in whatever way determined by law. There will be at least one Representative per state, not to exceed one per 30,000 people. (The rest is self-explanatory).
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