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Trumpdumper

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7. Only the state, not the district.

Reply to mcar (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 1, 2025, 08:34 PM

Monday

Odd, but the Constitution spells it out clearly.

Article I, 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.“

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