The framers didn't consider themselves natural born citizens of the United States because when they were born there was no United States. That's why they included the extra language, otherwise *nobody* could have been president.
The language does not exclude anyone that has British citizenship. It only requires that a president be someone that is a citizen by birth.
“The framers didn’t consider themselves natural born citizens of the United States because when they were born there was no United States. That’s why they included the extra language, otherwise *nobody* could have been president.
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It is not about: “when they were born there was no United States”, but: On the time, the United States DID come to existence, the framers didn’t consider themselves natural born citizens in a retrogressive way...
(sorry for my english... am from Europe)