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 requisite 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 wiothin 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 make, 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.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
The members of the House of Representative will be elected every two years by the people of each state. The voters in each state must meet the requirements they would have to meet to vote for their state lawmakers.
In order to be a representative, a person: must be at least 25 years old, must have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and must be a legal resident of the state he or she is elected to represent.
The number of representatives a state has and the taxes it pays depend on the number of people it has. (Each slave was to be counted as three-fifths of a person, but this is no longer in effect because of Amendments 13 and 14). The people will be counted within three years of the first meeting of Congress. They will be counted every 10 years after that. Until a census is done, we assign the number of representatives for each state listed. (This census is still done.) Each state gets at least one representative no matter how small it is.
When a representative dies or resigns, the governor of the state must call an election so voters can pick a new representative.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives is called the Speaker of the House. The House chooses the Speaker and any other officers it wants. The House alone has the power to impeach a government official. (Impeach means to accuse a public official of a serious crime.)