It’s an obvious speculation, but I’ll make it anyway: Maybe the framers made the (only) requirement that a `natural born citizen’ occupy the highest elective position in the country, as well as head of one of three co-equal branches of government, because they considered it imperative that the nation’s chief executive be able to comprehend his fellow citizens and the country.
.....because they considered it imperative that the nations chief executive be able to comprehend his fellow citizens and the country.
Right on.
And to be one of them.
America has an illegal alien as its president.