The Constitution

The third piece by Akhil Reed Amar, looks at the limitations on naturalized citizens for holding office, specifically the President. The Constitution states that only citizens born in the U.S. are eligible to be President of the U.S., as he says: "But those American citizens who happen to have been born abroad to non-American parents — and who later choose to become “naturalized” American citizens — are not the full legal equals of those of us born in the U.S. True, naturalized Americans have always been allowed to serve as cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, senators and governors. And at the founding, anyone already a citizen could be president, regardless of birthplace. (Alexander Hamilton, for example, though born in the West Indies, was fully eligible to serve as president under the Constitution he himself helped draft.) But modern-day naturalized citizens are barred from the presidency simply because they were born in the wrong place to the wrong parents."

In this case Amar points out  to one of the laws of constitution "The Constitution states that only citizens born in the U.S. are eligible to be President of the U.S" which puts the limitations on naturalized citizens for holding office, specifically the President, Amar believes that eligibility to be president should be opens to all citizens by USA born or not.

I disagree with the idea of changing this law because immigrant who become citizen of USA is always some how tied to their previous culture and most of them can be ethnocentric no matter who it is. America is a multicultural nation, so it is important that a president is raised in the multicultural world not just one race or ethnic group. By born USA citizens would be raised from birth in a multicultural nation and would understand the value of different culture, race, ethnicity and religion; and mostly likely wouldn't make laws or decisions based on the race, culture or religion they favor.