Arnold schwarzenegger autobiography page 214

The New York Post reported Friday that former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) “has been talking openly about working on getting the constitutional rules changed so he can run for president in 2016.” He’s unlikely to succeed.

Arnold schwarzenegger autobiography page 214

A presidential bid by the Austrian-born Governator runs afoul of the Constitution’s requirement that “[n]o person except a natural born citizen . . . shall be eligible to the office of President,” and the Constitution is virtually impossible to amend.

As the former leader of America’s most populous state, Schwarzenegger’s likely already served in the highest job he can ever achieve.

And this is too bad.

The “natural born citizen” language in the Constitution is a relic of Eighteenth Century concerns that have little relevance to modern America.

As Alexander Hamilton explained in the Federalist Papers, this requirement was placed in the Constitution to ward off “the des