 | United States - 1847 - 98 pages
...speaker shall have a casting vote. 10. Senate. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislatures thereof for six years. 11. The Senators are divided as equally as may be, into three classes. They occupy their seats for... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...first of the organization of the Senate. "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the Legislatures thereof, for six years : each senator shall have one vote." — Art. 1, Sec. III. From this clause then wo learn the true... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections - United States - 1865 - 678 pages
...people of the several States," &c.; and " The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the legislatures thereof for six years," &c. It has been lately assumed that the clause relating to the House of Representatives establishes... | |
 | Jesse Beaufort Hurlbert - Great Britain - 1865 - 296 pages
...Eepresentatives. 2. Composition of House of Eepresentatives—chosen every second year. 3. Senate composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the legislatures thereof for six years; age 30 years. 4. Manner of elections for senators—Congress to assemble once every year. 5. Privileges... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1871 - 454 pages
...receives eight thousand dollars per annum. CHAPTER VII. I. THE SENATE. THIS body is composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the. legislatures thereof, for six years, each senator having one vote. In the Senate, the smallest State, with but one member in the House,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...the electors of Bristol.] (14) By the constitution of the United States the senate is composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislatures thereof for six years : art. 1, $ 3; and the house of representatives of members chosen every second year by the people of... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 782 pages
...the electors of Bristol.] (14) By the constitution of the United States the senate is composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislatures thereof for six years : art. 1, 5 У ; and the house of representatives of members chosen every second year by the people... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...Its First Article provides (in s. 3) that " the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislatures...Constitutional composition of 6 Federalist, No. 27 (Hamilton). the Senate is therefore a negation of equality. Now, the writer whose prediction I quoted above is... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - Citizenship - 1888 - 128 pages
...VIIL THE SENATE. THE Constitution says, — "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislatures thereof for six years, and each senator shall have one vote." The legislators of a state are the men who are chosen by the... | |
 | George I. Wright - Pennsylvania - 1893 - 170 pages
...power of impeachment. SEC. III. (Clause 1.) The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the legislatures thereof, for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote. (Clause 2.) Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence... | |
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Article provides (in s. 3) that " the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislatures thereof, for six years. 
