You should be able to answer this question, but I guess it would render hours of your smoke blowing irrelevant.
Jefferson and his contemporaries were not natural-born citizens as understood by themselves, the Framers. The Framers wanted to restrict the Presidency to this class of citizen, but there were none who would qualify during the early years of the Republic, so they grandfathered themselves and others who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.
ML/NJ
Why do you waste your breathe responding to her?
She has been asking the same questions since last July and getting the same answers, over and over again!
She’s like the Star Travelling Gnome, minus the obligatory LOL’s.
It's much more amusing watching you try and do it.
Jefferson and his contemporaries were not natural-born citizens as understood by themselves, the Framers.
Which is what I said, and which you found so amusing. The Constitution identifies two classes of citizens - natural born and naturalized. If you are not one then you are, by definition, the other. The Founders were naturalized because they became citizens of the United States by law when the country was established. Knowing this, they inserted the one exception to the natural-born citizen requirement. Otherwise nobody would qualify.
Now quick, who was the last U.S. president elected under this clause?