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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

He was born in Virginia, parts of which had been colonized for over a century by the time he was born. Unless you mean because the US didn’t technically exist when he was born, but I don’t think there’s any evidence the Constitution intended to exclude people born before the Revolutionary War.

That’s one of those facts that seems like it shouldn’t be true, but I think that’s just because history classes tend to compress so much of the colonial period to jump straight to the Revolution.