[Red Steel]

The intent of the natural born clause was to prohibit naturalized citizens from holding the office of President, i.e. those who were not born here.

The founders wrote an exception for themselves in the Constitution to be eligible to serve as president since they were former subjects to the crown, and the founders who became presidents were not naturalized. I suppose you have an excuse this too?

[Michael Michael]

The founders wrote an exception for themselves in the Constitution to be eligible to serve as president since they were former subjects to the crown, and the founders who became presidents were not naturalized. I suppose you have an excuse this too?

They wrote the exclusion clause because there was no United States at the time of their birth for them to have been born in to make them natural born citizens. They could only have been naturalized citizens, so they had to include the exclusion because if they hadn't, we'd have had to wait around for at least another 35 years before we could ever elect a President.