What do you think (,at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution) means in Article 2 Section 1 presidential clause when pertaining to citizen?
[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 within the United States.]
Why did the founders Tublecane put two types of citizens in that clause?
“What do you think (,at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution) means in Article 2 Section 1 presidential clause when pertaining to citizen?”
It means what it obviously says it means. First, that a person has to be born a citizen to be eligible. Second, that and an exception is made for those who were born before the U.S. existed.
“Why did the founders Tublecane put two types of citizens in that clause?”
For one thing, obviously, if they hadn’t no one could be president until 35 years after the Constitution’s adoption. Also, because they didn’t want to exclude the fine men who fought for independence simply because they were born British subjects.