By that logic, we should then remove all barriers to run. If a convicted criminal can run, there’s no reason a 28 year old with no criminal background can’t.
If this actually works, the next step will be abolishing the two-term limit. “Leave it to the will of the people to decide if they want a dictatorship.”
Well, basically, this is the gist of “a republic, if you can keep it”. At the end of the day, my boy Montesquieu’s words hang over all government like a spectre. Governments rule only by the consent of the governed. If everyone woke up tomorrow and decided we wanted Lenin’s mummified goatee to be president, constitution be damned, Biden be damned, it’d be the president.
By that logic, we should then remove all barriers to run. If a convicted criminal can run, there’s no reason a 28 year old with no criminal background can’t.
If this actually works, the next step will be abolishing the two-term limit. “Leave it to the will of the people to decide if they want a dictatorship.”
Well, basically, this is the gist of “a republic, if you can keep it”. At the end of the day, my boy Montesquieu’s words hang over all government like a spectre. Governments rule only by the consent of the governed. If everyone woke up tomorrow and decided we wanted Lenin’s mummified goatee to be president, constitution be damned, Biden be damned, it’d be the president.
There’s a good case to be made that the 35 year old restriction is dumb and should be amended out.
Might as well ditch the citizenship requirement while we’re at it.
Elon musk starts sweating
oh god, Elon isn’t running for president, is he?? (edit: genuine question asked out of concern that Elon may be running)
Can’t. He was born in South Africa.
No thank God but he absolutely would if it wasn’t for that pesky “gotta be born here” law.