“’We the People’ are citizens of the United States”
How could they be, when the U.S. didn’t yet exist?
“How else would the Founders attempt to secure the United States of America if not by limiting the qualifications for the highest office to the People and their Posterity that was the reason for establishing the Constitution in the first place?”
By limiting them to people born citizens, which they did.
Of course it did. The United States existed with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The ratification of the Constitution was the creation of the form of government that the previously declared United States would follow.
By limiting them to people born citizens, which they did.
By limiting them to the children of citizens, which they did.
-PJ