“The framers didn’t consider themselves natural born citizens of the United States because when they were born there was no United States. That’s why they included the extra language, otherwise *nobody* could have been president.
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It is not about: “when they were born there was no United States”, but: On the time, the United States DID come to existence, the framers didn’t consider themselves natural born citizens in a retrogressive way...
(sorry for my english... am from Europe)