Speech #700140595

This is further signified. since in section 2 of Article I the word " inhabitant" was used fixing the qualifications of a Representative. and in section 3 of Article I they also used the word "inhabitant" when fixing the qualifications of Senators. and In section I of Article II. clause 4. the framers establish that the President must merely have been a resident for 14 years within the United States. but. of course. it was found nenecessary that he be a naturalborn citizen. In the twelfth amendment to the Constitution it is specifically provided that the presidential electors shall vote by ballot for President and Vice President. but one of them. at least. could not be an inhabitant of the same State with such electors. The fourteenth amendment specifically defines "citizenship" as follows: All persons born or naturalized In the United States and subject to Jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Therefore the framers of the Constitution clearly and concisely gave to the word "inhabitant" a meaning which they expected would ran without interruption through the course of existence of the Republic which they were constituting. A Representative and a Senator had to be an inhabitant of his State. but the President needed only to have been a naturalborn citizen or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution and a resident for at least 14 years.