Many laws are based on practical reasons. Forbidding a criminal to run for president is one. Or will you be ok if for example Putin ran for the american presidency letting the people decide?
I’d say that choosing a foreign-born person as your example is inaccurate because the US Constitution requires the President to be born on US soil. But seeing that the last time the Republicans put forward a foreign-born US national as a presidential contender, everyone glossed over the issue, and only ivory-tower types wondered about the Constitutional issue (e.g., who even has standing, as the concept is currently understood, to enforce the provision?) perhaps your hypothetical is right on point.
We need strong constraints for what laws politicians can pass. As a principle, I don’t think politicians should get to decide who can run against them or who can vote for them.
If you like your politicians: I would suggest you should look inwards.
For us to call ourselves a free nation, you have to allow someone deplorable a full and fair election…it fucking sucks, but that’s a cornerstone of the foundation of democracy and freedom.
Fully agree. No one should be prevented from voting or from running for office.
Many laws are based on practical reasons. Forbidding a criminal to run for president is one. Or will you be ok if for example Putin ran for the american presidency letting the people decide?
I’d say that choosing a foreign-born person as your example is inaccurate because the US Constitution requires the President to be born on US soil. But seeing that the last time the Republicans put forward a foreign-born US national as a presidential contender, everyone glossed over the issue, and only ivory-tower types wondered about the Constitutional issue (e.g., who even has standing, as the concept is currently understood, to enforce the provision?) perhaps your hypothetical is right on point.
I’m fine with reasonable limits on who can run. I don’t agree with letting politicians freely decide who can run by passing laws.
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We need strong constraints for what laws politicians can pass. As a principle, I don’t think politicians should get to decide who can run against them or who can vote for them.
If you like your politicians: I would suggest you should look inwards.
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Can you expand on what you mean?
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I didn’t vote for any of this. No one alive did. The system is rigged and deeply entrenched.
Americans act like their voting is disenfranchised, because it is - not much of a choice available to be made.
For us to call ourselves a free nation, you have to allow someone deplorable a full and fair election…it fucking sucks, but that’s a cornerstone of the foundation of democracy and freedom.
Democracy and freedom work within the law. You are free to run if you haven’t broken it.
The Constitution says otherwise, though.