SEC. 12. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall only extend to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under this government; but the party shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law. SEC. 13. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, qualifications and returns of its own members. Two thirds of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from clay to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members. SEC. 14. Each house may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two thirds, may expel a member, but not a second time for the same offence. SEC. 15. Senators and representatives shall receive a com- pensation for their services, to be fixed by law, but no increase of compensation, or iliminution, shall take effect during the session at which such increase or diminution shall have been made. They shall, except in case of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of congress, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place. SEC. 16. Each house may punish, by imprisonment, during the session, any person not a member, who shall be guilty of any ilisrespect to the house, by any disorderly conduct in their presence. SEC. 17. Each house shall keep a journal of its pro- ceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as in its judgment require secrecy. When any three members shall desire the yeas and nays on any question, they shall be entered on the journals. SEC. 18. Neither house, without the consent of the other, shall adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses may be sitting. SEC. 19. When vacancies happen in either house, the executive shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. SEC. 20. No biJI shall become a law until it shall have been read on three several days in each house, and passed by the same, unless, in cases of emergency, two thirds of the members of the house where the bill originated shall deem it expedient to dispense with the rule. SEC. 21. After a bill shall have been rejected, no bill containing the same substance shall be passed into a law during the same session.
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