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Article I Section 3 "No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen"
You are reading that backwards, this clause says who cannot be elected Senator. It says:Clause 3. No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.Thus a person cannot be a Senator if they are not, when elected, an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution requires:No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution requires:No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
In the Constitution, it states in the first Article, section 2. "No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen." Hope that that answered your question sufficiently.
It is to make certain that representatives chosen for a particular state are actually residents of that state. So, the Constitution does not truly say that. Unfortunately, double negatives were commonly used back in those days. Article 1, Section 2 states: "No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen." So while those words are in the Constitution, they have to be read with the opening words: "No person shall be a representative who. . .shall not be an inhabitant of the state in which he shall be chosen. No provision is truly clear unless it shall not use a double negative. Like I just did. Is this clear?
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
"No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen."- U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 2Any person who wants to be elected to the House of Representatives must be 25 yrs old.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. 30 years old, Nine years in the US, and must be in the state elected.
Yes, because you have to be at least 25 years old. Constitution Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2: No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
From Article I, Section 3, of the US Constitution: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. So a candidate for Senator must have been a citizen for 9 years.
The Constitution requires: "No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen."
1) at least 30 years old.2) a U.S. citizen for at least nine years at the time of election to the Senate.3) a resident of the state one is elected to represent in the Senate.