5. To authorize Cuban citizens to accept employment or honors from foreign governments or to serve in their armies.
6. To approve the treaties entered into by the President of the Republic with other nations.
Section Third
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ITS MEMBERSHIP AND ITS POWERS
Art. 48. The House of Representatives shall consist of one representative for each twenty-five thousand inhabitants or fraction thereof over twelve thousand five hundred, elected for the period of four years by the direct vote of the people and in the manner provided by law.
The House of Representatives shall be renewed by halves every two years.
Art. 49. No one shall be a Representative who has not the following qualifications:
1. To be a Cuban citizen by birth or by naturalization, provided in the latter case that the candidate has resided eight years in the Republic, to be counted from the date of his naturalization.
2. To have attained to the age of twenty-five years.
3. To be in full possession of all civil and political rights.
Art. 50. The power to impeach before the Senate the President of the Republic and the cabinet ministers, in the cases prescribed in paragraphs first and second of article 47 corresponds to the House of Representatives. But the concurrence of two-thirds of the total number of Representatives, in secret session, shall be required to exercise this right.[{217}]