The U.S. Constitution on Article I, Section 2, addresses the House of Representatives and how it should be composed.
Some statements might have contributed for the content on the referred section of the Constitution. For example:
"(...)That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, (...)"
"(...)We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, (...)"