The inhabitancy requirement is state-based: a representative need not be a constitutional resident of the particular district, though living outside it can create an electoral disadvantage. Age and citizenship duration differ by chamber, reflecting the Framers' expectation that senators would be older and more experienced.

Qualifications for election are not the same as standards of conduct after a member takes office. Each chamber may judge elections and qualifications, discipline members, and expel with a two-thirds vote, but those powers do not authorize Congress to add ordinary eligibility requirements beyond the Constitution's list.

Match each number to the correct office: twenty-five and seven years of citizenship for the House; thirty and nine years for the Senate. Both require state inhabitancy when elected. Do not import the presidency's natural-born-citizen or thirty-five-year age rules into congressional service.

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