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Should the Constitution Be Changed?

The L.A. Times editorial board says a "flaw" in the U.S. Constitution should be corrected to allow foreign-born citizens such as Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president. "And now that we can all rest assured that no foreign monarch is going to move into the White House, it's long past due for this nation of immigrants to amend the Constitution to allow naturalized Americans to aspire to the presidency. This is precisely the type of defining issue — what it means to be American — that the amendment process was designed to address."

Here's a roll call of Congress members.

UPDATE: The idea doesn't sit very well in the comments section of FreeRepublic. One fear: "I certainly don't want charismatic demagogues like Hugo Chavez to move here, get themselves a moonbat NY Senate seat, and run for President with the media fawning over them once they've been here long enough."

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Robert Salladay
Robert Salladay has covered California governors and state politics for 10 years. He has worked for the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Capitol bureaus of the S.F. Chronicle and L.A. Times. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley in history and Northwestern University in journalism. He covered the election of Gray Davis (twice), the 2000 Florida presidential recount, the 2003 recall and the Schwarzenegger administration. A native of Sacramento, he has lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake, Va.