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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??

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.

re: Secretary of State for each state to do their job and verify each candidate’s eligibility

Any chance of going after this in a State court? All of the suit thus far have been federal, and all have, or are apparently about to, meet the same fate.

Some place in this chain is going to be its weakest link. And it could be a link that no one had ever thought of before. That weak link will continue to be weak, regardless of how sturdy every other link is. Of course a lot of the links can't even be tested since so far no one has been found to have the standing to demand a test.

If Obama is as phony as he appears to be to most of us around here it's only a matter of time before something catches on, and that's all it will take. Just one.