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.
1. | William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:169--70, 1765 |
2. | Records of the Federal Convention |
3. | Debate in Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 17 Jan. 1788 |
4. | A Republican Federalist, no. 6, 2 Feb. 1788 |
5. | Wilson Nicholas, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 4 June 1788 |
6. | James Madison, House of Representatives, 22 May 1789 |
7. | James Wilson, The Legislative Department, Lectures on Law, 1791 |
8. | House of Representatives, Maryland Contested Election, 12, 16 Nov. 1807 |
9. | Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 31 Jan. 1814 |
10. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 612--28, 1833 |
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