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.

A recap of yesterday: The birth of Congress, the very one that has lasted to today. I’m sure some of you have heard of the Articles of Confederation. They made each newly minted state a member of a loose Confederation to say the least. Since America reached its Independence from 1776 to the election of [...]

Okay, thus begins Section 1. We are all familiar with the different divisions of government, having lived under them and participated in the Democratic Process. Remember, this was written over 200 years ago and is still valid and practiced today. You can’t say that about any other government across the world.
Section 1: All legislative powers [...]

Well, there is a Congress for Dummies, and buried within it, an explanation about the origins of the U.S. Constitution, I’m sure. Well, I could call this long-awaited column The Constitution for Dummies but that would be biting off of that successful franchise. So I will call it The Constitution: Explained.
Unless one is fresh from [...]