“No person except a citizen of the United States shall be eligible for the office of President.” Think of all the remarkable Americans who have held high public office but have been constitutionally barred from seeking the presidency.
The economy was starting to recover from a recession, gliding its way into a tech boom. We had a mix of confidence and healthy skepticism in our government, after having crushed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in war. At the southern tip of Manhattan, the World Trade Center towers stood as two exclamation points on a magnificent skyline.It bothers me that our Constitution excludes from the presidency all Americans who lack a U.S. citizen parent, the so-called “natural born citizen” clause.
I’d like to change Section 1, Article 2 to simply read, “No person except a citizen of the United States shall be eligible for the office of President.” Think of all the remarkable Americans who have held high public office but have been constitutionally barred from seeking the presidency.
