“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.
No Tublecane. The Founders put Natural Born Citizen in the clause and then put citizen in for the grandfather clause. That’s two different citizens. The president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States (or a citizen of the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted). Again that is distinguishing the difference between two types of citizens. Martin Van Buren was the first natural born citizen president.
Look at the Citizenship Chart to see the difference. Its very explanitory.
http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/naturalbornchart07292009.jpg
