Reply #43: the schwarzenegger amendment [View All]

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Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
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The above quote, concerning the requirements for eligibility for the Presidency, is from the Constitution of the United States of America. There are three basic requirements, with which every American citizen is familiar: the candidate must be at least thirty-five years of age; the candidate must have resided in America for at least fourteen years; and, noted foremost, the candidate must be born an American. As outlined in the supreme document of our land, the guidelines are quite clear.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), who was born in Austria, has endorsed a challenge to this clause. Last year, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced a bill that would change the Constitution to allow anyone who has lived in America for at least twenty years to run for the Presidency. Earlier this year, at a meeting of the National Governor's Association in Washington, Schwarzenegger was quoted as saying, "that there's no reason why not ."

A woman who came to the Governor's office with a bit less fanfare than Gov. Schwarzenegger was Jennifer Granholm (D-MI). Gov. Granholm was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.