[Political Junkie Too]

Jackson was grandfathered in under Article II Section 1 since he was born in the United States in 1767 and was a citizen of the United States before the adoption of the Constitution.

-PJ

[4Zoltan]

I don’t think that is the issue. Roosevelt’s point is that Jackson had dual English American citizenship.

While we generally accept that Jackson was born a long the South Carolina/North Carolina border back in 1859 there were questions of whether he was actually born at sea.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA148&dq=was+andrew+jackson+born+at+sea&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj55PLo6PL8AhVROEQIHSCMAoIQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=was%20andrew%20jackson%20born%20at%20sea&f=false