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Each State shall prescribe the time & manner of
holding elections by the People for the house of
Delegates & the House of Delegates shall be the
judges of the elections returns & Qualifications of
their members.

In each house a Majority shall constitute a
Quorum to do business—Freedom of Speech &
Debate in the legislature shall not be impeached or
Questioned in any place out of it & the Members of
both Houses shall in all cases except for Treason
Felony or Breach of the Peace be free from arrest

during their attendance at Congress & in going to
& returning from it—Both Houses shall keep journals
of their Proceedings & publish them except on secret
occasions & the yeas & nays may be entered thereon
at the desire of one——of the members present.
Neither house without the consent of the other
shall adjourn for more than——— days nor to
any Place but where they are sitting.

The members of each house shall not be eligible
to or capable of holding any office under the Union
during the time for which they have been respectively
elected nor the members of the Senate for one
year after.

The members of each house shall be paid for their
services by the States which they represent.

Every bill which shall have passed the Legislature
shall be presented to the President of the United
States for his revision—if he approves it he shall
sign it—but if he does not approve it he shall return
it with his objections to the house it originated in,
which house if two thirds of the members present,
notwithstanding the President's objections agree to
pass it, shall send it to the other house with the
President's objections, where if two thirds of the
members present also agree to pass it, the same shall
become a law—& all bills sent to the President &
not returned by him within——— days shall be
laws unless the Legislature by their adjournment
prevent their return in which case they shall not be
laws.