[BIV]

Your use of upper case with regard to the “only place it appears” is critical from a legal standpoint. And all lawyers know it. A lawyer learns how to construe documents in his/her first year of study.

[brityank]

It amazes me to see lawyers take the position that the crafting of our Constitution was very deliberative, and nothing was placed without due consideration of the then-current meanings of the words and phrases used. Had the Founders not needed the differentiation going forward, they still need to grandfather themselves in, but would have permitted any citizen to run thereafter.

By the way, turn it back on them: Where is "Citizen" defined in the Constitution?

[itsahoot]

A lawyer learns how to construe documents in his/her first year of study.

A lawyer then earns a good living misconstruing documents, the better they are at that the more money they make.