Members of
Congress,
United States
Officers : Dis-
qualification to
serve as Senator
or Delegate.
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Sec. 10. No member of
Congress, or person holding
any civil, or military office
under the United States,
shall be eligible as a Senator,
or Delegate; and if any per-
son shall after his election
as Senator, or Delegate, be
elected to Congress, or be
appointed to any office, civil,
or military, under the Gov-
ernment of the United
States, his acceptance there-
of, shall vacate his seat.
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Sec. 10. No member of
Congress, or person holding
any civil, or military office
under the United States,
shall be eligible as a Senator,
or Delegate; and if any per-
son shall after his election as
Senator, or Delegate, be
elected to Congress, or be
appointed to any office, civil,
or military, under the Gov-
ernment of the United
States, his acceptance there-
of, shall vacate his seat.
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Sec. 9. No member of
Congress, or person holding
any civil or military office
under the United States,
shall be eligible as a Senator
or Delegate; and if any per-
son shall, after his election
as a Senator or Delegate,
be elected to Congress, or be
appointed to any office, civil
or military, under the Gov-
ernment of the United
States, his acceptance there-
of shall vacate his seat.
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Sec. 10. No member of
Congress, or person holding
any civil or military office
under the United States,
shall be eligible as a Senator
or Delegate; and if any per-
son shall, after his election
as Senator or Delegate, be
elected to Congress, or be
appointed to any office, civil
or military, under the Gov-
ernment of the United
States, his acceptance there-
of, shall vacate his seat.
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27. That the delegates to
Congress from this state shall
be chosen annually) or super-
seded in the mean time by
the joint ballot of both
houses of assembly, and that
there be a rotation in such
manner that at least two of
the number be annually
changed, and no person shall
be capable of being a dele-
gate to Congress for more
than three in any term of
six years ; and no person who
holds any office of profit in
the gift of Congress shall be
eligible to sit in Congress,
but if appointed to any such
office his seat shall be there-
by vacated; That no person
unless above twenty-five
years of age, and a resident
in the state more than five
years next preceding the
election, and having real and
personal estate in this state
above the value of one thou-
sand pounds current money
shall be eligible to sit in
Congress.
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Proposed by Act of 1791,
chapter 80. Ratified 1792.
No Member of Congress,
or person holding an office
of Trust or Profit under the
United States shall be cap-
able of having a Seat in the
General Assembly or being
an Elector of the Senate or
holding any Office of Trust
or Profit under this State,
and if any Member of the
General Assembly, Elector
of the Senate, or person
holding an Office of Trust
or Profit under this State,
shall take his Seat on Con-
gress or accept of an Office
of Trust or profit under the
United States, or being
elected to Congress or ap-
pointed to an Office of Trust
or profit under the United
States, not make his resigna-
tion of his Seat in Congress
or of his office, as the case
may be within thirty days
after notice of his Election or
Appointment to office as
aforesaid his seat in the Leg-
islature of this State or as
Elector of the Senate, or of
his Office held under this
State as aforesaid shall be
void; Provided, That no per-
son who is now or may be at
the time when this act be-
comes part of the Constitu-
tion a member both of Con-
gress and of the Legislature
of this State, or who now
aolds or may hold at the
time when this Act becomes
part of the Constitution an
office as aforesaid both under
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