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1596. CONGRESS, Term of Members.—[continued].
No person who shall
have served two years in Congress, shall be
capable of serving therein again, till he shall
have been out of the same one whole year. [98]
—
Congress Bill.
Ford ed., ii, 128.
(1777)
[98]
From a bill drafted by Jefferson and passed by
the Virginia House of Delegates. The representation
of the Colony in the Continental Congress excited
bitter factional animosity. Richard Henry
Lee, being the leader of one party, and Benjamin
Harrison, with whom Jefferson acted, of the other.—Editor.
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