Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 2
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to 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.
An inhabitant of the state in which he was chosen
Only well-behaved people should be allowed to inhabit a land.
This is an important limit. Cultures vary within very small groups. On state levels it becomes more varied.
To represent people, you have to know them and spend your time with them.
It was not the intention of the Founding Fathers to enable career politicians.
Representatives were to be normal working individuals.
When a person inhabits a city, in Scripture, there is an association with good people. The land thrusts out evil people.
Proverbs 10:29, "The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity."
Deuteronomy 33:27, "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them."
Leviticus 18:27-30, "(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God."
Leviticus 20:22, "Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out."
Good citizens evict evil people from the land. They should not tolerate or condone evil by permitting it. When they do not protect their land from evil, they will be evicted too.
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