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legislature consisted of thirty-seven senators and eighty
representatives.

_Executive._ A governor and a lieutenant-governor are elected for two
years.

A secretary of state, a treasurer, and an attorney-general, are elected
for two years, and a state auditor for three years.

_Judiciary._ The judicial power is vested in a supreme court, district
courts, courts of probate, justices of the peace, and such other courts
inferior to the supreme court, as the legislature may establish by a
two-thirds vote.

Constitution of the United States.

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the
common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.

Article I.

Section. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested
in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and
house of representatives.

Sec. 2. 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 requiste
for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.

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.

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. 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 choose _three_; Massachusetts, _eight_; Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations, _one_; Co