Senate Qualifications

Senate Qualifications, Vice-President, Officers

Clause 3. 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.

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Clause 4. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

Senate Qualifications, Vice-President, Officers: Developments

Clause 5. The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.

Senate Qualifications, Vice-President, Officers in General

The Supreme Court has not interpreted these clauses.

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This text about Senate Qualifications is based on “The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation”, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office.