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This is why [Article II; Section I] differentiates between "Natural Born Citizen".....or "Citizen" (I won't say......."plain old" because some folks get upset at that).

Wait - no, it doesn't.

I see the problem now - you're looking at individual words while disregarding the context, cherry-picking nouns while ignoring the modifiers.

The emphasis isn't on "natural born citizen" and "citizen", as you claim:

[Article II; Section I U.S. Constitution]No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; (emphasis yours)

It's between natural born citizens and grandfathered citizens:

[Article II; Section I U.S. Constitution]No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; (emphasis mine)

That grandfather clause died, as an ongoing concern, sometime in the nineteenth century with the last person so covered. As they knew it would.

That leaves us not with the two types of people, as you claim - '"Natural Born Citizen".....or "Citizen"' - but one kind. No Person except a natural born Citizen shall be eligible to the Office of President. All American citizens at birth can aspire to the office.

[P-Marlowe]

That leaves us not with the two types of people, as you claim - '"Natural Born Citizen".....or "Citizen"' - but one kind. No Person except a natural born Citizen shall be eligible to the Office of President. All American citizens at birth can aspire to the office.

Your logic is impeccable and you have stated the case very succinctly. You have stated in just a few short sentences what some legal scholar might state in a treatise of thousands of words.

Excellent post!