[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H388]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. DAVIDSON:
        H.J. Res. 24.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article I Section 2 Clause 3
       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 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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