Reply #20: Gee

[DennisReveni]

Barney Frank proposed this around 2000.
Was he anticipating an Arnold run?
For once it would be nice if Democrats were informed before they make claims.
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jyinger/facfa/op-ed3.htm
Congressman Frank's proposed amendment does not give anyone the right to be President, it only gives them the right to run for President. The presidential election process the Founders devised has served this nation so well because it ensures that no presidential candidate will be successful without convincing a majority of the American people that he or she is not subject to subversive forces, whether foreign or domestic.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2079204/
But if there is a risk of undue foreign influence on the president, a proposed constitutional amendment introduced in 2001 by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., would take care of it. Under the language of House Joint Resolution 47, anybody who had been a citizen for 20 years would be eligible for the White House. Frank plans to reintroduce a version of the bill this year.