If the Natural Born Citizen requirement for President was intended to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity (keep foreign alleigances from taking over), and if the Framers grandfathered themselves as eligible, then it's reasonable to assume that their Posterity was the intended population to become President.
The Posterity of We the People are the citizen children (our Posterity) of citizen parents (We the People).
Therefore, a natural born citizen is a citizen child of citizen parents, as the intended reason stated in the Preamble.
-PJ
There is a problem here, if you use 1776’s population of the US (13 states)...it’s 2.5-million (more or less). No one can cite facts here, but one might assume that one out of every ten ‘citizens’ were really a first-generation American, and in some areas of the nation...it might have been one out of every four who were first-generation.
What is odd here, the natural born distinction applies only to the President/VP....not to House members, Senators, Judges or state Governors.
It would appear that the wording was created to prevent a case where some British (or French) figure arrives...gets popular regional support and ascends to the Presidency.
Agreed. It’s just that simple.