[MHGinTN]

In the very section defining president eligibility, the founder differentiated between mere citizen and natural born citizen. They did not write redundantly. You know you're wrong by the simple fatc that the founders wrote and exception clause to include a class of citizenship which is the from which naturalized derives but which was not then a naturalization process! The founders differentiate mere citizenship from natural born when they wrote the exception clause. The then went on to define a naturalization process which is distinctly different from both native citizenship (born on American soil/OR/born of one or more citizen parents but not on American soil) and natural born citizenship (born on Americxan soil AND born of parents who are American citizens at the time of the child's birth).

Droning on and on a lie that is blatantly refuteds by the facts of the Constitution makes anti-birther obamanoids look foolish to those who apply even rudimentary logic tot eh concept of divided loyalties which John Jay addressed in a private letter as the Constitution was still in construction.

[MHGinTN]

Lots of typos ... Hmm, trying to do too many things at the same time.

[eddie willers]

the founder differentiated between mere citizen and natural born citizen.

No they didn't.

The exception clause is written for that generation only. There was no United States until the Constitution was adopted so, ipso facto, not a single signatory (nor anyone else above infancy) would be qualified without that clause. I, for one, am happy that George Washington got a chance to serve since he was born a British subject.

Here is the applicable clause from the Constitution.

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.

I pasted that from a marvelous .pdf I found. It downloads quickly and allows you to run word searches for things like 'natural' 'born' 'naturalized' etc.

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.pdf