“NBC has been well explained in recent threads and it seems the Constitution’s wording is mostly based on English Common Law per Natural Born Subjects. That indicates only one American citizen parent is necessary to provide NBC to a person born outside the USA, not both. Cruz’s Mother was an American citizen.”
And that right there makes him not eligible for Article 2 Section 1.
To happily quote my FReind Highball;
The Constitution makes no distinction between natural born citizens and citizens at birth. They are one and the same. That means, until Congress passes a law to the contrary, that all children born to United States citizens abroad, or born in the United States regardless of parentage (except those born to diplomats or invading armies in wartime) are United States citizens.
The Constitution says what it says. Birthers like to pretend otherwise in hope of some political advantage that we couldn’t get at the ballot box, which is anathema to conservatism.
Those of us who truly love the Constitution have to respect it even it doesn’t say what we wish it did.