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[Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons]Amendment XIV. The actual
Enumeration shall be made within three
Years after the first
Meeting of the
Congress of the
United States, and within every
subsequent Term of ten
Years, in such
Manner as they shall by
Law direct. The
Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each
State shall have at Least one
Representative; and until such
enumeration shall be made, the
State of
New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight,
Rhode-Island and
Providence Plantations one,
Connecticut five,
New-York six,
New Jersey four,
Pennsylvania eight,
Delaware one,
Maryland six,
Virginia ten,
North Carolina five,
South Carolina five, and
Georgia three. ...
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[Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons]Amendment XIV. The actual
Enumeration shall be made within three
Years after the first
Meeting of the
Congress of the
United States, and within every
subsequent Term of ten
Years, in such
Manner as they shall by
Law direct. The
Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each
State shall have at Least one
Representative; and until such
enumeration shall be made, the
State of
New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight,
Rhode-Island and
Providence Plantations one,
Connecticut five,
New-York six,
New Jersey four,
Pennsylvania eight,
Delaware one,
Maryland six,
Virginia ten,
North Carolina five,
South Carolina five, and
Georgia three. ...
... unless in Proportion to the
Census or
enumeration herein before directed to be taken ...
... The
enumeration in the
Constitution, of certain
rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people. ...