115 S.Ct. 1842 (recognizing that “the right to choose representatives belongs not to the States, but to the people”). Consequently, the qualifications provision “is not alterable by the State governments.” The Federalist No. 52. Article I provides “reasonable limitations,” that allow “the door of this part of the federal government [to be] open to merit of every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or wealth, or to any particular profession or religious faith.” Id.; see also Thornton, 514 U.S. at 832-33, 115 S.Ct. 1842 (stating the purpose of the Elections Clause is to create “procedural regulations,” not to give the States “license to exclude classes of candidates from federal office”); Powell, 395 U.S. at 550, 89 S.Ct. 1944 (<HOLDING>). The State argues that the district court
holding defendant must act with specific intent to cause death of another in order to be convicted of attempted murder holding that appellate counsel was ineffective in failing to argue based on the first districts decision in montgomery that the standard attempted manslaughterbyact instruction was fundamentally erroneous where betts was charged with attempted firstdegree premeditated murder and convicted of the necessary lesserincluded offense of attempted seconddegree murder holding that attempted unseating of congressman powell who had been convicted of mishandling congressional funds was an impermissible imposition of additional qualifications holding that defendant who had pled guilty in oklahoma state court pursuant to the oklahoma deferred judgment act had not been convicted in the oklahoma proceedings for purposes of usc  922h prohibiting the receipt of a firearm by one who has been convicted of a felony holding that where a witness had been convicted seventeen years earlier but had been given probation and had not been confined the date of the conviction controlled