Where does it say that a president must be born in this country?

[Shredr]

I think Arnold is only agreeing to campaign with Bush because he wants to be President himself. If Shrubbie gets 4 more years, he'll repeal the law stating a president must be born in this country and Arnie will run is '08. Cheney will be too old, anyway.

[Dookus]

1. It's not a law

it's in the constitution. Only a constitutional amendmnent would allow Arnold to run for President.

[Ghetto_Boy]

8. In the Constitution because so many people were from England...

that we did not want to become a colony again.
Only two qualification to be the prez: 35yo Born in the USA!


BUT: it doesn't hurt to be real rich and born into a famous family!
(every once in a while a General or two makes it from nowhere)

[Dookus]

12. There's actually a third requirement -

the candidate must have been a US resident for 14 years.

[oceanpoetry]

2. US Constitution

n/t

[Liberal Veteran]

3. The constitution of the United States.

Pesky document it is.

[PurityOfEssence]

6. Talk about serendipity...

Here I typed a quick bit of silliness to try and be the first responder, and you use the very same adjective...

Yep. Parallel development sorta proves something.

[PurityOfEssence]

4. That pesky 'ol Constitution...

One of the reasons for it was to make sure that Hamilton couldn't run. Those Founding Fathers were sharp cats...

[salib]

7. Actually

In the Constitution it is written that "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..." Hamilton was eligible to be President.

[JPJones]

5. Your HS government teacher should be fired. n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Agreed. nt

[freetobegay]

9. I hope this is not taken the wrong way but...

Not knowing the answer to this question really scares the hell out me about some Americans!

[DemBones DemBones]

11. It scares me, too. nt

[hlthe2b]

13. I hope the original poster will not take this personally, but

even being a product of multiple public schools as we moved year-to-year across the country, I can't imagine that most of my cohort would not have learned the answer to this question from history, political science, and other similar courses in high school.

I really wonder what IS being taught in high school, besides how to appear to know some very limited content from a standardized test to suit the Bushie's* "all children left behind" initiative.

Sign me very sad.....

[kskiska]

14. Cheney too old?

Contrary to appearances, Cheney is only about 5 years older than Smirk. Of course his heart is much older than that.

[11 Bravo]

15. You presume that Cheney has a heart?

n/t