Article 1 Section 6 Clause 1

This clause prohibited the federal government from limiting the importation of persons understood at the time to mean primarily enslaved african persons where the existing state governments saw fit to allow it until some twenty years after the constitution took effect.

Article 1 section 6 clause 1. The senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained by law and paid out of the treasury of the united states. The senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained by law and paid out of the treasury of the united states. And for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place.

And for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place. And for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place. They shall in all cases except treason felony and breach of the peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses and in going to and returning from the same.

They shall in all cases except treason felony and breach of the peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses and in going to and returning from the same. They shall in all cases except treason felony and breach of the peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses and in going to and returning from the same. There are many contentious issues arising under article i section 1 which vests congress with all legislative powers herein granted i shall argue that the best reading of the vesting clause article i section 1 is captured by the concept of a delegation rather than nondelegation doctrine under this doctrine congress is the supreme lawmaker and its limits on delegated authority.

We now have fairly before us a proposition that contemplates a redress of these grievances which since the adoption of the present form of government have been a subject of grievous complaint and heartburning amongst the citizens of the united states. The senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained by law and paid out of the treasury of the united states. Article i section 6 clause 1.

1795 annals 4 1136 45. The state legislatures will pick the times and places for elections but congress can make laws to change the times and places for senators and representatives. The heart of the clause is speech or debate in either house and insofar as the clause is construed to reach other matters they must be an integral part of the deliberative and communicative processes by which members participate in committee and house proceedings with respect to the consideration and passage or rejection of proposed legislation or with respect to other matters which the constitution places within the jurisdiction of either house 446 immunity from civil suit both in.

Article 1 section 6. House of representatives reduction of salaries. Article 1 section 6 clause 1.