The Presidents of the United States of America Brief Overview
The United States of America has a rich and diverse history despite existing as an independent nation for less than three hundred years already. As one of the first modern democracies, nowhere is this more evident than in the process and history of how Americans have elected their leaders; the presidents of the United States of America. In total, there have been forty-three different presidents, with wildly different histories and backgrounds. Here is a short overview of the presidents of the United States of America.
There are very few requirements to be one of the presidents of the United States of America. This is by design, as the founders of the country wanted to extend this opportunity to as many people as possible. The only requirements are that the person be over the age of thirty-five and a natural born citizen of the United States of America. For this reason, the country have seen many different sorts of people as the presidents of the United States of America.
Now, the presidents of the United States of America are not entirely different, unfortunately. Though the founders of the country wanted diversity, sadly, that has not entirely happened. For example, every single president has been a man. This has been a problem for many years, especially in modern times, as sexism continues to prevail, despite women proving over and over again that they are capable as the presidents of the United States of America. By and large, the majority of the successful presidents of the United States of America have been white Protestant men with law degrees or military experience. The most recent of the presidents of the United States of America, the current president, is Barack Obama, the first non-white President. This is surely a huge step forward in achieving the initial goal of the founders of the United States of America, who wished this opportunity for any citizen of the nation, regardless of color, gender, or background.
There have been many of the presidents of the United States of America already, and despite the differences between them, including coming from a variety of regions of the United States had having different political beliefs, there is still a long way to go in terms of having the presidents of the United States of America truly represent the state of the nation and the varied and diverse people that live in it.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:30 am
didn’t schwarzenegger once say he wanted to campaign to be president one day? I know that he’s an american citizen, however surely the fact that he wasnt born in the country would rule him out!