Why cant arnold schwarzenegger be president?

Answer 1

NO. Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5 of the US Constitution clearly states:

"No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States."

Since Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, and wasn't around when the Constitution was adopted (to be grandfathered in), he isn't eligible to run for President.

Answer 2

According to the US Constitution, only "natural born citizens of the US " can be President. Arnold is a naturalized citizen, born in Austria on July 30, 1947.

However, 10 US Presidents were born before the US Constitution existed, so weren't covered by this.

Answer 3

No. The Twelfth Amendment says "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." Schwarzenegger is ineligible to be President since he is not a "natural born Citizen" (Article II, Section 1, paragraph 5), so he is also ineligible to be Vice President.

Answer 4

Arnold is Austrian, so he was not born in the United States. Therefore, he could not become President. People are trying to make an exception to this rule so that Arnold could run for president, however.

Answer 5

Yes, it does. Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution states one must be a natural born citizen to be eligible for the office. Mr. Schwarzenegger, having been born in Austria, does not qualify. (The clause does say one may simply be a citizen of the United States at the time the Constitution was adopted, the case for this being it would have been hard to show how someone at that time was born within the territories of a country that had not previously existed.)

Answer 6

Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger is eligible to become a U.S. Senator, or hold any number of other public offices in the Union, because he has been a U.S. citizen for longer than 9 years, which is the Senate minimum for a naturalized citizen. Conversely, to run for office in The House he would need to have been a citizen for at least seven years. Schwarzenegger has been a citizen of the United States since 1983. Constitutionally, his sole limitation for an electoral run for a public office would be that of the President. The constitutional limitation for non-U.S. born Americans to run for president is a dictate put in place by the framers to prevent international conflicts of interests in an office holder whose official duties necessarily involve matters of foreign relations. However, this would in no way preclude a non-U.S. born citizen such as Arnold Schwarzenegger from running for a position in the U.S. legislature.

Answer 7

He is from Austria. So he's not a natural born citizen of the US.

Answer 8

He was not born here. any candidate has to be a natural born citizen and he is not.

Answer 9

Unfortunately no, he cannot become Vice President of US, because he was not born in the US