For example some one that has been here since the age of 5 years old.
2007-12-18 12:13:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
This also entered legally to the states.
2007-12-18 12:14:58 · update #1
A person born here of parents born else where are not questioned of ties or legions. Such argument is invalid. Birth is not an Oath of Legions, SERVICE IS.
2007-12-18 12:49:13 · update #2
The constitution can be amended.
2007-12-18 12:50:36 · update #3
It's a tough call. The constitution says no, but I don't see what the real problem is. I mean, if the person running for president had ties to say Hugo Chavez or some other whack job, there is no way they would be elected. We have ways of checking out people that weren't available to our forefathers, so maybe things need to change.
2007-12-18 12:22:13 · answer #1 · answered by Mkath 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This would require an amendment in the Constitution. Only those born as citizens of the United States may serve as President.
2007-12-18 12:26:02 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, to many possible ties to a foreign nation. I am a naturalized citizen and no way would I vote for somebody who was not born here. I know several other naturalized citizens and they always have a soft spot for they native land even if they have been here since childhood. I have a friend who is from Mexico, she is naturalized USA but she does take offense at the building of a wall along the border, she sees it as an insult to "her" people as she puts it. BTW, I won't even vote for somebody who's parents were born abroad, I prefer at least third generation.
2007-12-18 12:18:49 · answer #3 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My husband is a naturalized citizen and he is active duty air force and I wouldn't see a problem with him personally running for president but I would probably side with the constitution. Simply because you can't have special rules for people in each possible situation. Yes, the law is very general, but in reality, if you said that people were granted the ability to run for pres. after naturalization then there would be all the whacko's out there who had been naturalized that you would have to worry about their connections, past lives, etc. It's just too difficult to track people's connections when they lived part of their life as a citizen of another country. Who says that country would be open to you investigating them....
2007-12-18 12:27:08 · answer #4 · answered by lmvenning 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. One of the requirements of the Presidency is that the candidate must be born in the United States. You can run for Senator, for Congressman, for Governor (like Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria), for Mayor, for any other position but the President of the United States.
If your children were born here, they could upon reaching the grand old age of 35.
2007-12-18 12:19:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
truthfully no longer. in case you're actually not born American you mustn't have the capacity to turn into president (that's the way the form wisely made it). I do think of non electorate that serve in the militia ought to get rapid tracked to citizenship in spite of the shown fact that and a few definitely do looking on what u . s . a . they arrive from
2016-11-23 13:32:52 · answer #6 · answered by plyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because the Constituion forbids it.
2007-12-18 12:16:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋