1. Abhorsen

    What are your thoughts on amending the US Constitution in order to allow naturalized US citizens to become US President?

    So those two are prevented in three ways from the constitution (need to be a citizen, can't be foreign nobility, and need to be natural born), on top of my proposed replacement requirement blocking them (which would only replace one of the two current problems), and on top of people having to...
  2. Abhorsen

    What are your thoughts on amending the US Constitution in order to allow naturalized US citizens to become US President?

    I don't think being natural born really impacts loyalty to the US much anymore (there was definitely good reason for it in the past, but not so much now). I'd rather have someone who swore a citizenship oath than some asshole who acts like the US is shit because they were born in it and it feels...
  3. Abhorsen

    What are your thoughts on amending the US Constitution in order to allow naturalized US citizens to become US President?

    No, that isn't a misinterpretation at all. That's the constitutional amendment working as designed. As for needing to be a citizen at birth, I'm fine getting rid of that. Immigrants, especially the successful ones, moved here because they wanted to be Americans. At the very least, they won't be...
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