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The Avalon Project: Articles of Confederation
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The Constitution describes the process for determining how many members in the House of Representatives each state receives. The number of representatives a state receives is proportional to the population of the state. Each state receives 2 senators.
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Article 1, Section 2, Clause 1
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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Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2
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.
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