US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 seems to cover it all pretty well. I see no room for argument.
Then where's all the fun?
You forgot to bold the important part
“at the time of the adoption of this Constitution”
‘US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 seems to cover it all pretty well. I see no room for argument.’
Agree. President=President elect:
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
You’re kidding, right?
You see no room for argument in Article II, Section I, the rest of us see *no definition* of “natural born citizen” in Article II, Section I.
The Constitution simply states the standard. It does nothing to explain what it means.
And as for those “citizens at the time of the adoption of this Constitution”? They are all a little bit dead by now. This provision was a one-time grandfathering in of the people who were not natural born citizens because their parents were not Americans, nor had America even existed at the time of their birth.
It in no way opened eligibility to be president up in the future to non-natural born citizens. Once that generation was gone, the only standard for eligibility was “natural born citizen.”