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What are some of the qualifications for a United States Senator?
Be at least 30 years of age. Be a United States citizen for at least nine years.
What formal qualifications do most states set out for membership in the legislature?
The formal qualifications that most State set out for membership in the legislature are Age, Citizenship, and Residence.
Why did some northern delegates argue that enslaved people should be counted for taxation but not representation?
Northern states objected because enslaved people were legally considered property. So, some argued that as property, Slaves should be counted for taxation but not representations.
Who has the right to set voting qualifications according to the constitution?
Not exactly. "Qualifications" to vote are set by the states, subject to certain restrictions in the Constitution and its Amendments and the authority of the federal government in enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Federal case law holds that the "right" to vote belongs to only to "qualified" citizens and that the states have the general authority to prescribe those qualifications. That authority has limits based in the Constitution and its Amendments. States may not use certain factors in determining qualification. Factors such as payment of poll taxes, prior condition of servitude (former slaves), sex, age (over 18) may not be used by the states to determine "qualification." States are free to make reasonable rules governing a person's qualification to vote, but they may not use that power as a means of depriving otherwise able citizens of the right to vote. States may require citizenship, registration, residency, a minimum level of competency. States may preclude convicted felons from voting. The Voting Rights Acts of 1965 and 1970 provide other restrictions on the power of states to qualify voters when that power is actually being used to disqualify voters.
Is it easier in some states than others to get a handgun?
yes because there are laws in some states that makes the time to get a gun longer
