The Constitution clearly states that all presidents must be natural-born citizens. This has come up as an issue twice in our history, with Barack Obama and Chester Arthur. And I understand that this was originally made to keep foreign intrests out of the White House.
But what purpose is left today?
I know your first thought may be election of some closet terrorist. But do you honestly believe the people would elect someone like that? I have more faith in America than that.
Now I'm not saying let some French guy come over to America for a year than decide to run for president. But why can a man be Governator of California but not be president? We need a Constitutional Amendment allowing Americans born on foreign soil and even naturalized citizens run for president. Make them live in the country for 20 years. Deny anyone who has been a dual citizen with any other country at any point in the past fifteen years. But don't discriminate against good Americans whose parents just weren't in the right place when their child was born.
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Having given it some thought, I see your point. This may just be one of the archaic leftovers from America's infancy. It'd be tough to get an amendment passed on it though, because it'd end up being a referendum on one person's ambitions, and would then become a partisan football.
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