[JRandomFreeper]

Kept Hamilton from running. Good enough for me.

/johnny

[jbarntt]

Kept Hamilton from running. Good enough for me.

Relevant part of the constitution:

"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States."

Note that Hamilton was a citizen at the time of adoption, (1788), and he had been a resident within the U.S. since 1772. Hamilton was eligible to be president as soon as he reached his 35th birthday.

[dvwjr]

Actually, the Presidential qualifications in the U.S. Constitution were deliberately phrased in such a way by the Founding Fathers so that Alexander Hamilton was eligible for the Office.

dvwjr