I certainly do. The Marquis de Lafayette served as a served as a Major-General in the Revolutionary War under George Washington. He fought Cornwallis at Yorktown. So no doubt by this standard, Baron von Steuben is a constitutional expert? Do you honestly expect anyone to accept this kind of crap? His MILITARY accomplishments are irrelevant to the creation of article II.
He was a personal friend of our first SIX Presidents, and is known to have gone and visited them personally.
Martha Washington had SEX with George, but that doesn't make her a Constitutional expert.
He was declared a natural born citizen of the State of Maryland, so he had damn good reason to know what the term meant.
Glad you brought that up. Maryland DEEMED him to be a "natural born citizen" and "his heirs male forever." Nothing in there about needing to be born anywhere. The status (according to the legislature of Maryland) would pass by Jus Sanguinus descent.
It still doesn't make his aide knowledgable regarding "natural citizen."
And Lafayette's aide was with by his side as he spent time with several of those Presidents.
And certainly all they talked about was the meaning of "natural citizen." Your theory that Lafayette's Aide is an "authority" is utterly ridiculous, but it is the sort of straw you usually grasp.
Lafayette's aide wrote a BOOK in which he stated exactly what the requirement was for somebody to be eligible to be President in the United States:
“No individual, other than a citizen born in the United States…”
And he said that all it took was being born in the United States.
Once again, you spin BS.
A man is writing a book in which he sets forth the Constitutional requirement for being President of the United States. He has direct, personal access to not one, not two, but ALL SIX of our first SIX Presidents.
If he had any question about what the term meant, or what the qualification was, he would've asked one of his friends. And they would've told him.
All the more so, since the Maryland State legislature declared Lafayette to be a "natural born citizen" of that State. If he had the slightest question about what the term meant, he would've asked them, and they would've told him.
So YES, the Marquis de Lafayatte and his aide were in a damn good position to know exactly what the term "natural born citizen" meant.
You try to dismiss those who were in a position to know, those who wrote general, legitimate works on our Constitution, including our greatest legal experts, while you inflate the credentials of people like David Ramsay, who shows no sign of having been especially close to any of the major Framers, and whose 6-page treatise written for the purpose of a sore-loser campaign was voted down 36 to 1 by our first House, including the Father of the Constitution and 5 other signers of the Constitution.
You're a complete hypocrite.
Martha Washington had SEX with George, but that doesn't make her a Constitutional expert.
Martha didn't write a book explaining the qualification for President, you jerk. If she had, you can bet she was in a position to ask her husband what the qualifications for President were.