Chapter X: Section 2: , Article I., says: "No person shall be a Representative who

shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen." This is proscription.

These are the disabilities imposed upon Foreigners after they have been made citizens. But, more than this, the Constitution leaves it discretionary whether to make them citizens at all. It simply confers the power--_simply permits_. Here is the remaining clause, to which we have alluded: