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Source Project Madison Papers Title Qualifications for Holding National Office, [26 July] 1787 Author Madison, James Date 26 July 1787
Cite as “Qualifications for Holding National Office, [26 July] 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0073. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 10, 27 May 1787–3 March 1788, ed. Robert A. Rutland, Charles F. Hobson, William M. E. Rachal, and Frederika J. Teute. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977, pp. 117–118.]
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