CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Do you need to be a certain age to stand?
USA Politics
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bearfan
Ancient Mariner
The constitutional requirements to be president are pretty straightforward: You've got to be a "natural born" citizen of the United States. You've got to be at least 35 years old. And you're required to have lived within the United States for at least 14 years.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Any history to those numbers or are they largely arbitary?
bearfan
Ancient Mariner
They were written up in the 1700s ... so there is that. 35 (at the time) was fairly old ... given the life expectancy of the time, Now I think it is almost pretty young. The natural born part and 14 years living in the US were to avoid non Americans taking office (mainly anyone British)
The average age of presidential candidates was fairly old, too, it was like 59 until the Civil War.
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A bit weird, if you move to U.S when you're 10, become a citizen by marriage and all that, you'll be longer "an American" than your kid at 35y.o.a but you can't run for office.
Onhell
Infinite Dreamer
Not for president, but you can run for any other office up to governor. (mayor, city council, etc.)
D
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I know. So why not?
Arnie can represent 40 million Americans, but he can't represent 350 million of them.
Arnie can represent 40 million Americans, but he can't represent 350 million of them.
Because a bunch of dead white guys decided that.
Jer
'Til Tomorrow
Yep. Or a sleeper. If a traitor is going to run our country, it has to be someone who was born here and corrupted after the fact, like our current president.
Tiffany Trump told the GOP Convention last night that "If freedom is lost in (the USA), there is nowhere else to go."
Yax
Ancient Mariner
The U.S. is, currently, the dominating power in the w
She is right. Trump can leave you, but you must never leave Lukashenk... errh, Trump. Let's celebrate your future dictatorship, Trumpsters!
Yax
Ancient Mariner
They should use that as their campaign song.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Politics aside, the way he speaks is characteristic of people showing signs of mild cognitive impairment/early dementia.
Pibroch_Whistler
Educated Fool
unsure if history proves this or not - would seem that some of the right-wing revolutions in the late 20th century (in South America) resulted in many on the left being killed/imprisoned after the fact.
D
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He's right. Even after winning street football matches, I, as a "leftist" would feel an urge to slaughter the entire enemy team (starting with the goalie), while my right wing teammates would just walk back away to their hyper-successful lives of Justice and Fairness.
