[Yaelle]

or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify

The Framers expected that at some point the voters might be fooled by someone who was not legally eligible. They expected to have all the facts in before the inauguration.

[Political Junkie Too]

I give a lot of credit to the foresight of the Framers to the Constitution, but the 20th amendment was submitted to Congress in 1932.

-PJ