The Framers of the United States Constitution specified the following criteria that one must meet in order to be eligible to be President (in Section 1 of Article II): 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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. What is meant by the phrase natural born Citizen...