Editing Tennessee General Assembly (section)

===Constitutional structure===
According to the [[Tennessee State Constitution]] of 1870, the General Assembly is a [[bicameral]] legislature and consists of a [[Tennessee State Senate|Senate]] of thirty-three members and a [[Tennessee House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] of ninety-nine members.

The representatives are elected to two-year terms; according to a 1966 constitutional amendment the senators are elected to four-year terms which are staggered, with the districts with even numbers being elected in the year of [[President of the United States|Presidential]] elections and those in the districts with odd numbers being elected in the years of Tennessee gubernatorial elections.

According to the Tennessee Constitution each representative must be twenty-one years old, a citizen of the United States, have been a resident of the state for three years and also a resident of the county they represent a year prior to the election. The state constitution also states that  each senator must be thirty years of age, a citizen of the United States, resided three years in Tennessee, and resided in the district one year prior to the election.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitol.tn.gov/about/docs/tn-constitution.pdf|title=The Constitution of the State of Tennessee|date=November 4, 2014}}</ref>