There's a very straighforward explanation for that: the framers of the Constitution never foresaw a fraud like Obama who probably did not meet the Constitutional qualifications, yet had the gall to pull such a huge hoax over the nation.
When the Constitution was written there were no birth certificates in America. If a person were naturalized, their history was usually well known, and the naturalization was recorded.
Births were rarely recorded other than in family Bibles.
The Constitution includes no requirement that specific documents be provided to prove eligibility. *(Sherman Logan)
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Sherman Logan, what do you want? A Constitution the size of the Manhattan phone book?
No number of laws will coral evil. Definitions of even the finest points will NOT deter those who choose to subvert them. The Constitution is NOT sufficient to maintain an orderly society even if every individual word were tightly defined. . Ultimately it merely a scrap of paper with faded ink.
Fundamentally, whether our experiment in self rule succeeds or fails depends upon honest citizens or good will.
The Constitution is**meaningless* without people of good will who are willing to honestly abide by its original meaning.
Sherman are you on the side of evil or are you a person of good will? Today is the day to choose.