[John Leland 1789]

The framers of the Constitution, I believe, had a logic much superior to thinkers today. Does anyone really think that the framers would have imagined the questions posed in this article? I don’t.

I believe the framers would have thought that people would naturally understand that if the the Constitution says (forgive my paraphrase):

1. The president must be a natural-born citizen. And . . .
2. The vice president shall assume the office of the presidency in the event of the death or incapacitation of the president.

...that the electoral college would not elect, nor would the Congress certify the placement of a vice president not qualified to be president.

[Oztrich Boy]

Fearful of foreign influence over the new nation, the framers of the Constitution included in Article II, Section 1 the directive that "no person except a natural born Citizen ... shall be eligible to the Office of President." They said nothing about the citizenship of the vice president. Thus, under the original Constitution, Schwarzenegger could have been elected vice president,

As the Vice President was originally the candidate who came second in the EC vote for President, the prof's loophole didn't apply