House

of Representatives, a term first employed in colonial and State Legislatures to denote the lower or popular branch. In the Randolph plan, brought before the Convention of 1787, the lower branch of the Federal Legislature is called simply the “ first branch.”” The name House of Representatives first appears in the report of the committee of detail. (See arts. Apportionment, Slave Representation, Previous Question, Mace, etc.) ‘The House has twice chosen the President, in 1801 (Jefferson), and in 1825 (J.Q. Adams). The chief law regulating elee tions of Representatives was pa ed in 1875. Reps. in 57th Cong., 357. 344