What is the main idea of this excerpt from an article in the u. s. constitution: 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 electos 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

APEX: The constitution establishes the qualifications for congressional representatives, as well as specific rules for their election

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the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.