age limits for congress
The Congress is divided into two houses, The House of Representatives and the 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. Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution places three important limits on Congress and its powers. 1  pass ex post facto laws, which outlaw acts after they have already been committed.  pass bills of attainder, which punish individuals outside of the court system. In the United States as of 2014, candidates for Congress must be 25 years old to run for a seat in the House of Representatives and 30 years old to run for a seat in the Senate. Other countries have other age minimums for their respective legislative bodies. Continue Reading. Credit: Tom Merton OJO Images Getty Images. To be a State Representative: -must be 25 years of age at the time of the election -reside in the state that you represent -citizen for 7 years -win election To be a Senato…r -must be 30 years or older at time of election -citizen for 9 years -reside in the state you are running in. According to the Congressional Research Service 170 members of the  House and 60 Senators are lawyers.    Out of a total of 435 U.S. Representatives and 100 Senators (…535  total in Congress), lawyers comprise the biggest voting block of  one type, making up 43% of Congress. Sixty percent of the U.S.  Senate is lawyers.   Enough said. Congress is  bicameral -- the Senate and the House of Representatives. The  Senate has 100 voting members and the House of Repres…entatives has  435 members. Enumerated powers, or the expressed powers, are powers the Constitution explicitly grants to Congress, including the power to declare war and levy taxes. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution also contains the necessary and proper clause, or the elastic clause, which gives Congress extra powers. As interpreted by the Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), this clause means that Congress can assume other powers and pass laws in order to fulfill its duties. Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution places three important limits on Congress and its powers. Congress cannot. 1  pass ex post facto laws, which outlaw acts after they have already been committed.  pass bills of attainder, which punish individuals outside of the court system. The Structure of Congress. The framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government, sitting at the center of national power. As a result, Congress wields significant but limited power. The Constitution enumerates some powers that Congress has but also specifies some powers that Congress does not have. The two houses of the U.S. Congress are the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives consists of 435 members selected from states based on population. The Senate has 100 members, two from each state.
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