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Immigrants and the Presidency

By immigrationprof

A short while back (before recent political setbacks in California), California Governor Arnbold Schwarzenegger was the talk of the town as a possible U.S. President.  This raised the question whether the U.S. Constitution should be amended to allow naturalized citizens to be elected President of the United States.  Currently, only natural born Citizens are eligible for the presidency.  For a discussion of this requirement, see Malinda L. Seymore, The Presidency and the Meaning of Citizenship, 2005 BYU L. Rev. 927.  The “Schwarzenegger-for-President” movement seems to have subsided but the legal issue remains.

KJ