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: