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To: AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; justiceseeker93; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; stephenjohnbanker; ...

Section 2
1: 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.

2: 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.

2.5? No Person shall be a Representative who shall not attend feminazi cuckold training on an annual basis.


5 posted on 11/29/2017 9:38:45 PM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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Art. I, sec. 5, cl. 2:

“Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.”

If the House of Representatives (by majority vote) wishes to punish its Members for failing to attend annual “sexual-harassment training” sessions, it may do so. And if 2/3 of Representatives vote to expel a fellow Member for failing to attend such sessions, the House certainly would expel such Member.

What certainly would be unconstitutional would be if a House (or both Houses acting in concert) required attendance at such “training” sessions before permitting a Member-elect to be sworn in. The qualifications of Members are set forth in the Constitution, and neither Congress nor any state may add to such qualifications (any addition or modification of such qualifications would require a constitutional amendment).

I also think that it would be unconstitutional for a law (which, by definition, requires bicameralism and presentment) to state that a Member will be expelled if he or she does not attend such sessions, or even a law that stated that a Member will be expelled for engaging in sexual harassment (or rape or murder, for that matter), given that the power of expulsion of its Members is vested in *each House*, not in Congress as a whole. The House and Senate can adopt a “sense of the Congress” resolution or something to that effect, but the final decision to expel may be exercised exclusively by the Members of the House whose Member whose expulsion is being considered, and it only may occur with the vote of 2/3 of such House’s Members present and voting.


16 posted on 11/30/2017 4:51:14 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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