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Constitutional Requirements

​President

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

Senate

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.

House of Representatives

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that district for which he shall be chosen.

Supreme Court

None.

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