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Why do the citizens of the US have to play this GAME:

What is the proper way to enforce the terms of the Constitution, namely the eligibility of candidates to “run” and to “serve” as POTUS?

If this is a guessing game, relying on “trial & error”, we can lose our country before we find out.

Is that what the FRAMERS intended??

Why do the citizens of the US have to play this GAME:

What is the proper way to enforce the terms of the Constitution, namely the eligibility of candidates to “run” and to “serve” as POTUS?

If this is a guessing game, relying on “trial & error”, we can lose our country before we find out.

Is that what the FRAMERS intended??

There are two proper ways: One is for each of the 50 states’ chief election official, usually the Secretary of State for each state to do their job and verify each candidate’s eligibility before they are allowed on the ballot. All it would take is any one state’s Secretary of State to not allow a candidate’s name on the ballot to doom that candidate.

The second way is for any one member of the 100 members of the US Senate and any one member of the 435 members of the US House of Representatives to submit a written objection to the certification of the vote of the Electoral College at the joint session of Congress which is held to count and officially certify the Electoral College votes with the outgoing Vice President of the United States presiding. If a written objection to the certification of the Electoral College vote is received, that automatically triggers an investigation into the reasons for the objection.
In short, three people: One Secretary of State and two members of Congress could stop an ineligible candidate.

I suspect the Framers never dreamed of the level of corruption that exists in the government and judiciary.

Then again:
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” John Adams

Good questions. The “standing” determinations seem to be just a big eraser the O admin uses to protect itself from the law. If U.S. citizens do not have standing then who the hell was the Constitution and Bill of Rights referring to.
I guess I just can’t accept the position that eligibility is a “nonstarter” and we need to focus elsewhere.