Timeline for Why is the minimum age to be U.S. president still fairly high at 35?
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| Feb 11, 2020 at 13:56 | vote | accept | Alexei | ||
| Feb 10, 2020 at 16:27 | comment | added | Monty Harder | The reason why it's still 35 is that it requires 2/3 of each house of Congress, and 3/4 of the state legislatures, to change it, and there is insufficient interest in doing so to pass those bars. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 10:11 | comment | added | JBentley | The question is "Why is the minimum age to be U.S. president still fairly high at 35?" (emphasis added). A complete answer should address the reason(s) that the requirement has not changed in modern times. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 9:19 | comment | added | Barmar | @WGroleau I thought there was a link to something from Hamilton in comments to this question but it looks like they've been deleted. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 3:03 | comment | added | Welz | For those who want to see the video of Reagan (Starts at 0:35) | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 17:47 | comment | added | jamesqf | @com.prehensible: 65 is only "retirement age" because of the actuarial needs of Social Security systems. It takes that long to collect sufficient taxes at a reasonable rate to pay benefits (and for a fraction to die before collecting). In the US one can start collecting benefits anywhere between age 62 and 70, and one need not actually be "retired" to do so. Plenty of people retire earlier than that, or keep on working longer - like my neighbor who was an active mining engineer (one that crawled around holes in the ground) well into his 90s. | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 15:17 | comment | added | Asteroids With Wings | Great answer because it shows that this has nothing to do with brain development (?!) but about actually proving yourself over the course of a lifetime's career of service, something a lot of younger people seem to want to skip these days and go straight to the big job. Though I do agree that it would be completed by a citation or two, and by an analysis of why/how this rationale has survived to the current day (which is obvious but could be stated for a full answer). | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 8:22 | comment | added | bandybabboon | 65 is retirement age. Very few major companies hire a new CEO older than 65 for energy reasons. Why permit men over the age of retirement to run for an energetically demanding and strategically vital job? | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 18:20 | comment | added | WGroleau | This excellent answer might be improved by citing actual statement(s) from one or more framers who stated this as the reason. | |
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 18:25 | comment | added | jamesqf | This doesn't really answer the question, though. It explains why the requirement was in the Constitution in the first place, but not why it is still there. Which of course is (as @Colin's answer explains) because a) it is quite difficult to amend the Constitution; and b) not very many people would want such an amendment. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 17:36 | comment | added | hszmv | @user253751: This is what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they drafted the constitution. They also thought Americans would be more concerned about who's in charge of the Legislature than the Presidency (which is why the Legislature was written first). Naturally, what they wanted to happen and what the American People did occasionally did not align. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 17:26 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | "who had shown through his career to be reliable in his values and not prone to the changing whims of the public" - heh. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 17:19 | comment | added | phoog | For those who may be curious, Mondale was 56 in 1984, having been born in January 1928. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 15:48 | comment | added | Andy | This is the better answer because it addresses why it's in the constitution, not just that the requirement comes from the constitution. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 13:55 | history | answered | hszmv | CC BY-SA 4.0 |