[okie01]

I’m interested in hearing counter arguments.

And, frankly, I'm getting tired of offering them.

U.S. citizenship law recognizes two kinds of American citizens: citizens-at-birth and naturalized citizens.

As a child born on foreign soil to an American citizen mother, who was of a certain age, Cruz immediately qualified as a citizen-at-birth and was recognized as such by the American consulate.

Citizens-at-birth are eligible to serve as president. Naturalized citizens are not.

So far as the presidential eligibility argument is concerned, end of story.

[Hiddigeigei]

end of story.

"The Law of Nations" (1758) by Emerich de Vattel. (As a legal source "Law of Nations" is mentioned in Article I, Section 8, #10 of the Constitution in respect to the authority of the US Congress to enforce the law of nations, in particular - against piracies and felonies on high seas).

According to Chapter 19, §212 of "Law of Nations", "The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country of parents who are citizens". The concept "Natural born citizen" is a twofold criterion meaning that:

Both parents must be the citizens of, and the birth must take place in the concerned country, assuming that the citizenship inherited by this child and the loyalty are never changed ever after.

Sorry if I'm tiring you.

[TexasBarak]

Citizens-at-birth are eligible to serve as president. Naturalized citizens are not.

Then there are people like me who are both of these things (born overseas to two American citizens, in a US Army hospital- naturalized by fiat when I was four). Not that I'm interested in being president- but my 13 year old daughter could do it better than Obama!