becoming president

So lets, pick people's brains.

To become the President of the United States, you must fulfill these three requirements.

1. Only native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who were both citizens of the U.S.) may be president of the United States, though from time to time that requirement is called into question, most recently after Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, was elected governor of California, in 2003. The Constitution originally provided a small loophole to this provision: One needn't have been born in the United States but had to be a citizen at the time the Constitution was adopted. But, since that occurred in 1789, that ship has sailed.

2. One must also be at least 35 years of age to be president. John F. Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president; he was 43 years old when he was inaugurated in 1961. There is no maximum age limit set forth in the Constitution. Ronald Reagan was the oldest president; at the end of his term in 1988, he was nearly 77.

3. Finally, one must live in the United States for at least 14 years to be president, in addition to being a natural-born citizen.


Now the questions of the week.

Do you believe that somebody has to be a naturally born citizen in order to run for President?

should this law be revised to include immigrants to be part of the American Dream and be all they can be?

For the 14 years part, would you like to make more specific to say it must be consecutive 14 years or 14 years here and there?

If the Senate were to reform the executive branch of the government, what would you like to see changed or amended?



and no, this is not some stupid liberal crap to try and keep Obama in power and try to prove he was born in Hawaii. This is just a simple pick your brain question over what you guys think?

Born in the country, yes definitely.

Immigrants and the American Dream? trekkie, I don't quite get you're going with this one .

14 years consecutive, why have someone who isn't fully dedicated?

As for reforming the executive branch, less power to the president. Make him largely ceremonial like our Queen/King is here in the commonwealth nations. Hate to break it to you all but the provisions provided in the constitution for the separation of powers really aren't valid in this day and age. Are we imploding here because there are no checks and balances? No. I think the American system is more prone to implosion, golly gee, let's shutdown the government! I'd rather have 4 elections in 7 years than have the government "shutdown".

When everyone was trying to pretend that Obama shouldn't be president because they were trying to pretend he was Kenyan or something I was like "lol wat". Seriously he is obviously a US citizen where ever he was born, I thought it was dumb to have a law that you have to be born in the US to be president. If you make America your home and your birth country becomes something you merely celebrate of your roots, how does that make you any less American than someone who was born there?
In the end they're all politicians, anyways.

As for 14 years, someways I think should be less but I guess that's fine. But not consecutively... sure 14 years total and some lesser time consecutively. If you move abroad that only broadens your experiences and is more of a plus in my opinion.

But for the other stuff I don't even know how it works. We learned about some American system stuff in grade 12 history but in all honestly I didn't care about it at alllll.

I agree with Shane on everything should stay except the multiple elections in a short period. Plus, I don't think you should go off and change the Constitution, because that may lead to more changes, which in the end probably wouldn't be good.

I was referring to multiple elections here in Canada. I'd rather have that than have the government shutdown if a funding agreement can't be reached.

I was referring to multiple elections here in Canada. I'd rather have that than have the government shutdown if a funding agreement can't be reached.[/q

Yes but it's written in the Constitution term limits, so I really don't like the idea of multiple elections. Anyway, this month they reached a resolution, and back when Clinton was president was the last shutdown. It's not like they happen on a yearly basis or anything.

Do you believe that somebody has to be a naturally born citizen in order to run for President?
I think if you've been living in the country for you know..20 odd years. At some point your considered a citizen of that country are you not? At that point you should be treated equal and allowed to run.

should this law be revised to include immigrants to be part of the American Dream and be all they can be?
The ****?

For the 14 years part, would you like to make more specific to say it must be consecutive 14 years or 14 years here and there?
I'd say they'd have to be there for 14 years. Not lived there till they was 14 years old, **** off and come back again.


If the Senate were to reform the executive branch of the government, what would you like to see changed or amended?

Don't know. Don't care. Be more fun. Make them wear silly hats once a week.

That second question is ******* by the way. Has anyone answered that? Let me look. Shane didn't answer. Good. I have a better question right it's in relation to this;



Right ok. Now i can sort of agree with this. Sort of. I think he was more getting at nobody would vote in a hispanic person because of there race so not REALLY the same thing but there culture and way of life is..different from a white American right? I don't know actually. Lets say it is. Ok right cause If I'm honest. If a muslim stepped up and tried running for prime minister in this country. I'd not vote for him. His beliefs in my book would effect his decisions too much and his culture and way of life would be pushed onto me. Even if he claimed otherwise. That's how i see it.

So would you have a problem if someone born in your country but to a different religion or culture ran for president? Does that make sense or do i sound like a racist? I'm not a racist for the record. I'm a bigot.

that is what people said about a black guy becoming president.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/ ... nal/main537369.shtml

Hispanics have surpassed blacks as the nation's largest minority group, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.

The Latino population grew to 37 million in July 2001, up 4.7 percent from April 2000. The black population increased 2 percent during the same period, to 36.1 million.



back on topic
should this law be revised to include immigrants to be part of the American Dream and be all they can be?

at the time it sounded good in my head.

the idea was should amend the constitution to give the ability of immigrants to become president of the united states. basically be all they could be.