By Lindsey Stokes
Staff Writer
A ten-year-old Massachusetts girl born in China has asked lawmakers to change the constitution so that she may one day run for president.
Alena Mulhern testified last Wednesday before the Mass. State House committee that everyone should have the opportunity to run for president and lead the country. Alena was ten months old when she was adopted. She now resides in Kingston, Mass., with her parents. According the Constitution, only natural-born citizens are eligible to run for president.
Alena is trying to persuade state lawmakers to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to amend the Constitution to state that natural-born citizens include foreign-born adopted children.
She asked the committee to consider “all the great candidates” who cannot serve their country due to “a law that came into existence more than 200 years ago.”
