[Lancelot Jones]

There are THREE defined classes of citizen mentioned in the Constitution:

Natural born citizen

Person born citizen

Naturalized citizen.

All three listed enjoy every privilege and immunity afforded to every other citizen, however, the natural born citizen enjoys the additional privilege of being able to serve as the head of the Executive of The United States.

There is one more "class" of citizen mentioned in the Constitution: a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.

In spite of the fact that the Founders had ALL been born in what became the United States, they chose to raw a line of distinction between a "natural born citizen", and the natives of the Country at the time of the ratification (read creation) of The United States.

In fact, the Founders identified themselves as naturalized citizens who could be President.

Had they not done so, no one would have qualified.

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine; In memoria æterna erit justus, ab auditione mala non timebit.

Beauseant!

[BuckeyeTexan]

I don't see "Person born citizen" anywhere in the Constitution. The Constitution also directly mentions male citizens, but male citizens are not a class unto themselves. (Constitutionally speaking anyway.)

There are only two classes of citizenship: native and naturalized. There are multiple paths to obtaining either one of the two classes of citizenship, but there are not three separate classes of citizenship defined in the Constitution. (But I can put up a fairly good argument that the FF intended natural born to be separate and distinct from native and naturalized.)

Citizens of the U.S. at the time of the adoption of the Constitution would have been naturalized citizens.