Having tough conversations with an elderly or aging family member is something we all will have to face.   Generational gaps have caused many of us to have already had these conversations for many different reasons and circumstance.

Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of the Constitution, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident”

One thing our founding fathers did not anticipate is the complexity of the world in which we live.  The different viewpoints and roles that the citizens want from their elected government officials have evolved tremendously.

As we all begin to have the age old conversations with our aging family members,(pun intended), one of those conversations is about, when it is time to take the keys away and park the car.    

Metaphorically, our country is the largest and the single most important car in the world.  So I ask you, why would we allow our aging and declining elderly family members to continue to posses the keys and drive this country erratically at times and too slowly, most of the time?

I am proposing that we amend the constitution to reflect that the minimum age remain 35 yet add that we limit the maximum age to 65 on all elected federal government positions, including the office of the President of The United States of America.

Some would say that when you reach the age of 35, you have experienced life, have gained enough wisdom to hold the most important position in the country and possibly the world, is that of the office of the Presidency.  

Most of us would say that we have experienced a loved one, who has reached the age, when they begin to lose touch with the issues that affect the masses of the population.   We have also experienced those aging loved ones where they begin to lose focus, memory, attention to details, and sometimes reality all together.  

After the age of 65, those moments of decline are more likely to occur or begin at any given moment in one’s life more than at any other age.

So I ask you to support the change of adding a maximum age of 65 to hold any elected federal government position, to rightfully reflect the age, view points and wants of the majority of governed citizens of this country, and so that clearer vision and leadership may prevail!