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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