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Really? So a President needs to go to every member of the Armed Forces and show them his birth certificate? He needs to show every member his Electoral College count? He needs to argue to every member that his birth certificate isn’t a forgery?

Hawaii says Obama was born there. John McCain & Sarah Palin accepted Obama as eligible. The voters accepted him as eligible. The Electoral College voted, and all 535 members of Congress accepted their vote as valid. The US Supreme Court accepted it. Every facet of government, including all 50 state governments and all foreign governments, accept that Obama is legally the President.

But any member of the military can disobey a legal order by claiming the President isn’t the real President - either GWB in 2000, or Obama in 2008?

"The person running for office is responsible to prove eligibility to everyone."
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Do you mean that literally? That everyone, 100% of the population, must be convinced that the candidate is eligible? That all it takes is one doubter in the entire country for a candidate to be ruled out?

I don't think you'll find 100% of the U.S. population agreeing on anything, and I hope you'll agree that no nation can be run on that basis.

You may feel that our current system -- freedom of speech and of the press, election by the people (through the Electoral College), acceptance by the Congress of the vote, the ability of Congress to impeach, etc. -- is inadequate to deal with ineligible candidates.

But it's hard to believe that you're serious about requiring that it be proved to everyone. There will always be doubters over any proposition that anyone can come up with.

Remember, the Founding Fathers wanted only eligible candidates to be President. But they also wanted the People to have their choice as much as possible, and they were very leery of giving anyone the power to block the People's choice.

They did give that power to the Congress. Whom else would you like to see it given to? Judges with lifetime appointments? The military?

These are difficult questions to answer when writing a Constitution. I think our Founders did a good job, but I'd be interested to know how you would have done it differently.