Article 1, Section 3, Paragraph 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.
Inhabitant of the State
Inhabitants have made a place an intergenerational home.
Without taking in consideration the double negative, one would think that Senators were to be from another state than the one that chose them!
This is the very thing they wanted to make sure did not happen. If someone is chosen to be a senator, they must be a resident or inhabitant of the area they will represent. There was a discussion about what term to use.
“Inhabitant” in Scripture refers to someone who has settled down and lives in a permanent structure.
Revelation 17:2, "With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication."
In Revelation it is referring to the “inhabitants of the earth.” It is contrasting those whose habitation is heaven. Those whose home is this earth are led into corruption by the world leaders.
Revelation 8:13, "And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!"
Those living on the earth are warned that things are going to get very tough for those who have settled down to living permanently on the earth.
Revelation 12:12, "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."
Those of heaven are told to rejoice, and those of earth to mourn because the devil is really angry and limited to tormenting those on earth.
An inhabitant as used in this Constitution refers to one who has made the state their home and who is very active in keeping the state a place that can be enjoyed. Part of this word is to inherit, including plans for many future descendents and generations.
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