Natural Born Citizens

The United States is a nation of immigrants and those who are foreign born and become citizens of the United States should also be given the opportunity to run for presidency. There is a great problem with how the United States handles the qualifications on eligibility to run for president. Prohibiting certain citizens from becoming a president is unjust. This will affect the natural born citizens of the United States and the people who become naturalized citizens. It will affect the natural born citizens because there may be a candidate who has a great knowledge and understanding of the issues the country faces, but is not able to run for president because of one factor, his or her place of birth. This leads the citizens of the United States to miss out of having an intellectual person represent their country. It will affect people who were not born in the united states because even if they work in the government, they will never be able to be a president of the United States. Should a human be deprived from a position simply because he or she was not born in the United States? Think about all those people who have …show more content…
citizens are not able to run for President under the law regardless of how long they have lived and how long they have been citizens of America they do not get the same rights as those who were born in U.S. territory. Therefore, with the Equal opportunity to govern amendment it would allow foreign born U.S. citizens to run for presidency after being citizens for twenty years and have lived in America for the last fourteen years. Passing this amendment would give the naturalized citizens the equality and opportunities America says to offer regardless of the place of birth. The citizens of the United States would be able to vote for the candidate they believe deserves to take office and represent the country. Overall, the purpose of this amendment is to make Americans equal under the law despite their place of