No, wait... you're talking about the phrase in Article I section 2? That one confuses me.
However, that reminded me of another one.
Article II Section 1 Clause 2
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
States can choose to popularly elect winner-take-all, apportion, or just let the legislatures pick, their Electoral College electors. The federal government has no say in how states choose their electors for the Executive, and sitting Congressmen or Cabinet secretaries cannot be state electors.
This is also possible evidence to my earlier post that Article I Section 6 might also prevent sitting Congressmen from participating as delegates to Article V conventions. We see here that they are also explicitly prevented from participating as state electors to the Electoral College. In that sense, the Electoral College acts akin to a convention of states, does it not? Except maybe that the Constitution does lay out a specific role that Congress plays in the Electoral College.
-PJ
Exactly. That is where non-natural born citizen presidential nominees should be stopped. I will NEVER acquiesce to ANY court determination as to who may be on presidential ballots.
In that sense, the Electoral College acts akin to a convention of states, does it not?
Very good point. They are both temporary bodies assigned to serve important purposes, and are afterwards dissolved.