Yes, they did set it up to make it impossible for a person with foreign loyalties to be President.
That was their intention and it makes perfectly good sense to me.
“Yes, they did set it up to make it impossible for a person with foreign loyalties to be President.”
Are you serious? What about people raised by or spending extended time with foreign grandparents? What about people educated and/or living for a extended periods overseas (who have are sure to come back)? What about the countless people who irrationally hate their homeland and grow up as Anglophiles, Francophiles, etc., for no particular reason?
Or by “loyalties” do you mean strictly legal loyalties? Well, no, it doesn’t, unless you think “natural born” self-evidently means your parents can’t pass on the ability in you to claim foreign citizenship. But if so, why are we even arguing about this? It should be as self-evident to me as it is to you, and how are you going to convince me of what I should be able to immediately see unaided (except possibly by Vattel)?
“What about people educated and/or living for a extended periods overseas (who have are sure to come back”
Sorry about that awful sentence. I meant people who are educated and/or live for extended periods overseas who come back for long enough to reestablish residency.