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Article V.
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For the most
convenient management of the general interests of the United States,
delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislatures of
each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November,
in every year, with a power reserved to each State to recall its delegates,
or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their
stead for the remainder of the year.
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No State shall
be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members; and
no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in
any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of
holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his
benefit, receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind.
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Each State shall
maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as
members of the committee of the States.
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In determining
questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have
one vote.
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Freedom of
speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any
court or place out of Congress, and the members of Congress shall be
protected in their persons from arrests or imprisonments, during the time of
their going to and from, and attendence on Congress, except for treason,
felony, or breach of the peace.
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