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Why would the founders have to write an exemption for themselves if citizen was all you needed to become president? The exemption is right there in the clause.

Do you believe natural born citizen and citizen are one in the same? If so why the need for the exemption? They were all citizens at the time of the writing.

But NONE were natural born citizens, thus the exemption. And you say a history lesson can not help.......

Agreed. The eligibility clause makes it very clear that just being a Citizen is not enough unless you were alive when the Constitution was adopted. And I do not think Kamala Harris is that old. She is at best a 14th Amendment "Citizen" and not an Article II "natural born Citizen". Adjectives mean something. And the "natural born" before "Citizen" refers to Natural Law and the Laws of Nature, not man-made Positive Law, Acts, Amendments, Treaties, etc. My Euler Diagram showing kinds of U.S. Citizens and the positions in the circles of the kind of U.S. citizen Kamala Harris is (at best) and the kind of U.S. citizen President Donald Trump is, i.e., a "natural born Citizen" of the United States since both his parents were U.S. Citizens when he was born in the USA.

My supporting argument for the truth of the Euler Diagram: https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/u-s-senator-kamala-harris-is-not-a-natural-born-citizen-of-usa-not-eligible-to-be-president-and-cinc-or-vp/

"Why would the founders have to write an exemption for themselves if citizen was all you needed to become president? The exemption is right there in the clause."

Who ever said all you needed to be was a citizen?

"Do you believe natural born citizen and citizen are one in the same? If so why the need for the exemption? They were all citizens at the time of the writing."

I already said. They were not natural born citizens because when they were born there was no USA to be born into. It had nothing to do with their parents.