In another part of the same Constitution it is provided:—
“Any person chosen Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Councillor, Senator, or Representative, and accepting the trust, shall, before he proceed to execute the duties of his place or office, make and subscribe the following declaration.”[293]
Here the place or trust of a Senator or Representative is called an office. And this same use of these terms, as synonymous, and applicable to the post of Senator or Representative, is continued:—
“Every person chosen to either of the places or offices aforesaid [meaning the offices of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Councillor, Senator, or Representative] … shall, before he enters on the discharge of the business of his place or office, take and subscribe,”[294] &c.
The authority of New Hampshire is like that of Massachusetts. Her Constitution declares:—
“All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them.”[295]
Here the word “officers” obviously means the substitutes and agents of the people. But who are substitutes and agents of the people more than Senators?
Then again, in the same Constitution, it is declared:—
“No office or place whatsoever in government shall be hereditary.”[296]