The Constitution for the United States of America
Article 1
Section 2 - Paragraph 2
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No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained 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. |
This assured the people that whomever was elected by the people of another State was qualified and capable of functioning to the best benefits of all the people.
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