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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.
That's from Article I Section 2
I am amused at the odd way they worded it with negatives.
(Just a comment - nothing to do with my main question.)It seems to me that, based on that passage, someone could run for office without being an inhabitant of the state in which he runs but that when he is elected, he has to be an inhabitant of the state.
Does Article I Section 2 of the constitution say that one only has to be a resident (inhabitant) of a state when he is elected and not when he is running for office?
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