The American Founders and signers of the Constitution, despite their brilliance, failed to anticipate a president who would take the law-making powers they had given solely to the peoples’ Congress into his own hands
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No they didn’t, the put Art.2 Sec1 in there and we ignored it at our peril. Ineligible usurpers don’t have any reason to feel constrained.
they couldn’t imagine a future leader who would don metaphorical crown and ermine robes to impose his imperial will upon a people conceived in liberty.
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Yes, they could. That’s why they specified only a natural born citizen could be President.