To the Editor: To quote your Sept. 6 editorial "A Constitutional Anachronism," "Some historians are puzzled about what the founding fathers had in mind" by including in the Constitution a provision that bars naturalized American citizens from becoming president.

The protest follows a call last month by Prime Minister Costas Simitis's Socialist government to enact a privacy code that bars citizens from declaring details of their faiths, occupations, family status and thumbprints for identity cards.

Mr. Collor barred Brazilian businesses and private citizens from access to all but a few hundred dollars a day in their bank accounts and investment funds, as a shock method of improving the economy and stemming inflation.

The President may, by order, suspend the right to constitutional remedies as well, thereby barring citizens from approaching the Supreme Court for the enforcement of any of the Fundamental Rights, except Articles 20 and 21, during the period of the emergency.

Syria primarily cites tense relations with Israel as the reason for barring Jewish citizens from employment in the civil service or serving in the armed forces, and for exempting them from military service obligations.

Punitive Turkish nationalist exclusivist measures, such as a 1932 parliamentary law, barred Greek citizens living in Turkey from a series of 30 trades and professions from tailoring and carpentry to medicine, law and real estate.

The latest election law, passed almost simultaneously, barred citizens who have lived outside of Turkmenistan in recent years from becoming candidates - a rule that blocked the best-known opposition figures from entering the race.

The notion of sovereign immunity, as embodied in the 11th Amendment to the Constitution, has been interpreted by the Supreme Court as barring citizens from suing their own states in Federal court.

Timorous as ever before the gun lobby, Congress is preparing a wholesale sellout to the firearms industry that would bar injured citizens and communities from suing irresponsible gun manufacturers and dealers for legitimate damages.

Taking the Onus Off Merchants Industry proposals typically seek to bar private citizens from using teen-agers in "sting" operations to see which merchants are obeying the law.