"Did the Founding Fathers consider that a 17-year-old might be governor?"
Well, we know they required a minimum age of 25 to serve in the House, 30 in the Senate, and 35 as President, so I'm guessing... probably not.
I must admit, however, a lingering bit of amusement at any young person today, liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, who proudly proclaims that they're getting involved in politics to clean up the mess the horrible older generation has created. Not that I disagree with their idealism or, in most cases, their ideas. It's just that I recall much the same rhetoric and moral certainty coming from us (now the "horrible older generation" ) fifty years ago, and know, without a shadow of a doubt, that, a half-century from now, a new young generation will emerge, loudly proclaiming how they will clean up the mess that Ruzich and his fellow eeeeeeeevil Millenials made of the world. At my age, one thing that is indubitably clear is that "what goes around, comes around."