Why does the constitution place particular limits on who can become president

Probably because we don't want little kids as president or random people from separate counties

He is commander and chief of the greatest destruction arsenal every imagined at the moment ... But the founders where afraid of a confederate becoming President and tearing us apart. You have to remember we fought a war against an empire that ran the world and won by the skin of our teeth. There were many many "Loyalists" who still saw themselves as subjects of the crown, thought the war was a bad idea, and stayed out of it ... even secretly sending taxes back to England to curry favor if the war was lost.