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.