TERMS OF AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE.
Federal.— Presidents are elected for four years, senators for six years and representa tives for two years. Article VI, ¶ 3 of the Constitution requires that senators and repre sentatives, members of State legislatures and all executive and judicial officers, State and National, "shall be bound by oath or affirma tion') to support the Constitution, but "no reli gious test shall ever be required as a qualifica tion to any office or public trust under the United States? No senator, representative or Federal office holder may be a Presidential elector (Art. II, § 1, ¶ 2). The Constitution states that ono person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United $tates at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years and been fourteen years a resident within the United States." (Art. II, § 1, ¶ 5). Hence, foreign-born citizens are excluded from this of fice but children born of parents residing abroad temporarily are not considered foreign-born. No restriction is placed by the Constitution upon the number of terms a President may serve but Washington's precedent • of two terms has always been followed. A senator must be at least 30 years old, nine years a citi zen of the United States and at the time of election an inhabitant of the State represented. A member of the House must be at least 25 years of age, seven years a citizen of the United States and at the time of election an inhabitant of the State represented (Art. I, § 2,
¶ 2, § 3, ¶ 3). This does not prevent their estab lishing homes in Washington while maintain ing their legal residences in the States repre sented. Article I, § 6, ¶ 2, says: "No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civic office under the authority of the United States which shall have been created or the emolu ments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office? Accordingly, if a senator or representative accept any Federal office, his seat in Congress thereby becomes vacant, but if an office-holder be elected to either branch of Congress he may retain his position until his active duties in the legislature begin, whereupon the other office becomes vacant. Regarding the judiciary the Constitution makes no stipulations, the justices being appointed by the President with the ad vice and consent of the Senate. The same pro vision holds true of Cabinet officials, save that no one interested in the import trade may be come Secretary of the Treasury; though all members of the Cabinet are expected to sever all business or outside connections. (See CABI