The president of the United States is required to he thirty-five years of age. The ii.embers of the senate of the United States must have arrived at the age of thirty years. The members of the house of representatives must have arrived at the age of twenty-live.
The legislators receive a compensation for actual ser vice, but are not permitted to hold any office at the same time, except in the militia, which is always regarded with favour and confidence by the constitutions, laws, functionaries, and people of the union and of the states. It is the natural strength of the country, imbodied and organized—interested in the national freehold—in its peace, liberty, safety, and prosperity : the fathers, hus bands, brothers, and sons, of its children and its ma trons : the guardians and defenders of the young, the old, the peaceful, the tender, and the infirm : the true effective constitutional balance of the regular forces by land and sea, which the course of human affairs cannot but occasionally require. There are no prejudices against regular forces in the United States; but the history of all countries teaches our civil and military citizens to be aware of the dangers of standing armies in peace and war. Most of the individuals, who are considered to have jeopardized the United States, since their poli tical birth, were military men ; and it is not doubted that they contemplated, as their means, a part of the army of the time. It is therefore important to suppress trea
son, as well as to repel invasion, that the fourteen hun dred thous tited Americans, able to carry arms, should be and provided.
The powers of the several legislatures extend to all objects necessary to provide for our internal concerns and external relations. They can authorize all the re quisite measures, and grant the necessary revenues.
The other powers of the president of the United States extend to the management of their external relations, in a defined conjunction with the senate, to the command of all the forces by sea and land, and to the superinten dence and enforcement of all the laws enacted by con gress. On application of a state, the general government must protect it from domestic violence.
The powers of the judiciary department of the United States extend to all cases affecting our foreign relations, cases between citizens of the United States and foreign ers, and cases among citizens residing in or claiming under different states.