Amendment to Allow Immigrant Presidents

American Republican Lia Roberts to run for Romanian presidency

Lia Roberts, the 54 year-old Romanian born chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party, who has also preserved her Romanian citizenship, announced her intention to run as a presidential candidate in this year's elections in Romania, with her two main arguments being her privileged connections with politicians in Washington, president Bush included, and her affording to spend 15 million dollars from her own budget on an election campaign. The sum is just enough to start a bank in Romania and is eight times higher than the money a Romanian candidate is legally allowed to spend for their own campaigns. Lia Roberts, who a year ago would have settled for the office of US ambassador in Bucharest, has recently made public her presidential ambitions which she said were stirred by the positive messages received from Romanians after having appeared as a guest on Marius Tuca Show on Antena 1 private television late October last year. It is however hard to believe that a skilled politician like herself decided to run for president in a country like Romania following a mere TV show. Lia Roberts, a rightist, said she did not believe her candidature would strengthen Adrian Nastase's position in the presidential race. "I will take votes from everybody because I represent the entire Romanian people and because there are things above any political interests: the every day life", said the American politician.

Is the US alone in limiting the head of state to native born citizens or is it a common practice? Anyone?

Is the US alone in limiting the head of state to native born citizens or is it a common practice? Anyone?

Absolutely not!

Is the Gropenator a US citizen?

Is McCain Eligible for the Presidency?
Matt Alsdorf
Posted Friday, Jan. 7, 2000, at 2:57 PM PT

Article II of the U.S. Constitution specifies that only "natural born" citizens of the United States are eligible to become president. Does the fact that John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone disqualify him?
Probably not. "Natural born" appears only once in the Constitution, as one of three prerequisites for presidential candidates (they must also have lived in the U.S. for more than 14 years and be at least 35 years old). Most constitutional scholars interpret "natural born" to cover everyone who was born an American citizen. This includes 1) people born in the U.S. (including territories such as Guam and the Virgin Islands) to parents of any citizenship; and, 2) people born abroad to American parents. Although the United States governed the Panama Canal Zone as "if it were sovereign" until 1979, it was treated as foreign soil for the purposes of American citizenship. But since McCain's parents were Americans, he was granted U.S. citizenship at birth.