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Should Any Books Be Banned?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Disenfranchisement of Presidents

There are only two requirements to be the president of the United States. You just have to be born in the US and you have to be what is it? 35. And yet they disenfranchise people convicted of a felony. But if you want to run for president, that's totally cool. You just can't vote for president. I kind of love it. How I love picturing the pitch meetings of the founding fathers. They're saying, okay, 35 by 35, you know what's going on. People else. No felon is going to run for President. If they did, they'd never get anywhere because people would, you know, be like shocked. Things have changed.

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