Answer:
1. Add the number of senators and Representatives
2. No person holding on office of trust or profit under the United States, basically meaning where they get financial benefits.
Before the bill goes to the floor for voting, it is carefully studied and reviewed by a committee that pertains to the issue the bill is concerning.
The House is the larger of Congress's two legislative bodies. Its membership is based on the population of each individual state. By law, its current membership is set at 435 Representatives, plus nonvoting delegates from the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories
I understand it like this:
The US was special in the way that it was a society created "from the scratch", and not by centuries of social negotiation. Also, it was formed by large group of immigrants that had to negotiate their live together and their structures in a very sudden way rather than evolving them from previous structures, as was done in Europe. This was both a challenge and an opportunity: it allowed to not be restricted by the social structures already there (such as nobility), but there was a risk of a "collapse" in that conflicts would arise and the society would not function.
