I believe you’re misinterpreting the wording. There are two groups of people who are eligible to be President.
1. Natural born citizens.
2. Individuals who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution (1784). This clause allowed a good many people to be eligible, notably Alex Hamilton, who were actually immigrants to what is now the US.
There is nothing at all in there that implies that qualification is hereditary and limited to those eligible for citizenship in 1784. If there were, it would have been overridden by the 14th Amendment.
Anywho, in at least five states blacks, though not slaves, were full citizens in 1784.
Which, IMHO, was exactly where the issue of slavery originally resided and should have remained....with the States.
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If there were, it would have been overridden by the 14th Amendment.
LOL! Are you sure? According to the courts, the 14th created an entirely NEW class of citizenship. One that didn't even exist when the Constitution was written-
14 CJS section 4 quotes State v. Manuel 20 NC 122:
"... the term `citizen' in the United States, is analogous to the term `subject' in the common law; the change of phrase has resulted from the change in government."
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U.S. v. Anthony 24 Fed. 829 (1873)
"The term resident and citizen of the United States is distinguished from a Citizen of one of the several states, in that the former is a special class of citizen created by Congress."
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U.S. v. Rhodes, 27 Federal Cases 785, 794:
"The amendment [fourteenth] reversed and annulled the original policy of the constitution"
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If allowed any force in law, the 14th Amendment nullifies the entire separation of powers enumerated in the Constitution and places us under the auspices of one, single, national government.
While the Founders may have agreed all Men were created equal, NO form of government was ever given the authority to keep everyone that way.