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“That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, wherever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.”
I can't seem to find a reference to the gentleman...........
Are you referring to St. George Tucker....perhaps?
Yeah, that was a dumb mistake.
His work was "View of the Constitution of the United States".
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=693&chapter=68851&layout=html#a_1661360
There is also this citation from James Kent
"The Constitution requires (a) that the President shall be a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and that he shall have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and shall have been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Considering the greatness of the trust, and that this department is the ultimately efficient executive power in government, these restrictions will not appear altogether useless or unimportant. As the President is required to be a native citizen of the United States, ambitious foreigners cannot intrigue for the office, and the qualification of birth cuts off all those inducements from abroad to corruption, negotiation, and war, which have frequently and fatally harassed the elective monarchies of Germany and Poland, as well as the pontificate at Rome."
http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/kent/kent-13.htm