[RegulatorCountry]

The language from the Constitution, that I provided in my reply to you, cannot refer to naturalized citizens, because naturalized citizens are expressly forbidden under the Constitution.

That the language differentiates between "natural born citizen" and "citizen" in that language means that there is a difference between the two, with "citizen" not being naturalized.

So, "natural born citizen" means something more than a U. S. citizen at birth.

Shall we make you an honorary citizen of Rio Linda?

[allmendream]

Do you have trouble reading and comprehending simple English?

I never said there was no difference. In fact a gave a specific example of a U.S. citizen who is not a “natural born citizen” and thus would be ineligible to serve as President; namely my Governor.

I repeat to you. Engage what I said, not what you wish I said, wanted me to say or thought I said.

A natural born citizen means a citizen at birth, rather than a naturalized citizen.

[Citizen Blade]

The bolded language in "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" deals with a unique situation at the time of the adoption of the US Constitution. At that time (and for 35 years afterwards) there is no one who would have met the test of qualifying as a natural-born citizen of the US, becuase every American citizen at such time had been born either in Europe or in one of the colonies that pre-dated the US. Until 35 years after the adoption of the Constitution, there was no American citizen who qualified as natural-born.

This provision is a historical curiousity, nothing more.