They also feared a foreigner in the Oval Office as Commander in Chief.
That’s why they insisted on a natural born citizen.
Someone who was naturally and solely an American with no possibility of being anything else because they were born here of citizen parents.
Failures to communicate like this are the reason so many millenials think only socialismm is democracy.
Democracy in America by Alexis de Touqueville clarified the difference between Democracry in a government, which Walter Williams discusses and Democracy in Society which Walter Williams unfortunately does not give sufficient attention in this article.
Without that balance, communication fails.
The US has a near direct democracy in society. We vote where to live, where to work, where to worship, where to play, where to buy, big box, ma-n-pa or designer boutique. With direct democracy we vote what to buy, foreign or domestic, or to save and not buy.
In direct democracy everyone has vote, children, non-citizens, illegals, unregistered, almost everyone except those doing time in prison.
Half of America does not vote for politicians in the government. Half of us who do vote see America as the society, not the government. The government is just a small pimple on the American body.