it is weird that the law prevents discrimination based on a person's race, color, gender and handicaps, but when it comes to birth place, it's like "you can't touch this!" but as nobody can choose their race, color, gender and ect, no one can have any say on one's birth place. now, how is that not a discrimination if people born outside of U.S. are not allowed to run for president? if "all men are created equal" can get every man and woman of all races and colors to have equal rights, how can we get stuck on words designed hundreds of years ago when america was a new nation to prevent king of england from designate someone from his court to be president of america? it is unjust to people who happened to have a birth place outside of U.S. and it is unjust to everyone in the nation if it prevents someone who can do a great job but can't get the job based on birth place. people have tried to change it without success before. i really wonder why?
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I say it doesn't matter. What matter is the achievements of the person that shows that is the right person to vote for. It is a huge job, I wouldn't care where is the birth place, but the job has to be done right.
the answer to your question is no.
I don't see why not, but a constitutional amendment is very difficult - it was intentionally set up to be so - so I doubt it'll change any time soon.
Yes, as long as they have lived in the country for a long time.
Where you are born is just a technicality...
Tell me about it...I've been living in this country since I was 6 months old (I'm in my 40s), English is my first language, I have no ties to foreign potentates, and I voluntarily became a US citizen in the 80s.
I can't run for president.
Of course, there is no way on earth I would want to be president, so it's hard for me to get too worked up about it.
This is pretty much a worlwide idea. America is not the only one with this law.
I would say no, but things change...
Ok lets elect bin laden - Our founding fathers put lots of things in the Constition and Bill of Rights and as the times changed ammendments were written to adapt to changing times. The idea of changing the Constition to allow aliens to hold the office of President has been rejected time after time because smarter men than you agree it is not a good idea.
Nope ! With all the immigrants America has now, They could easily vote in a Crazy person with crazy views and America would be in dire stress, for instance lets allow China's Dictator to become America's President, No more free speech, free religion and we would have to wear a button on our shirts at all times with his picture( CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY). And no i'm not prejudice, I love all people including immigrants, legal and illegal. I'm just sayin.
The Constitution of the United states has worked well for two centuries. It is not a good idea to start messing with it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has certainly done a lot better job that the Decider has, and there are supporters who would like to see him run for president. But it is quite immoral and probably unlawful to change laws to serve the interests of an individual person.
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