[Robert DeLong]

The fact that Congress had to make a ruling on a citizen born with certain circumstances clarifies they are a citizen, period. A natural born citizen needs no such clarification. That is why they specifically made the reference to a natural born citizenship as a special requirement. With a natural born citizen there is no question as to their citizenship at all.

With your loose interpretation an anchor baby is a natural born citizen. That is not the case either. They are citizens by virtue of the manipulation of the 14th Amendment to bring Jus Soli to be interpreted as the law, though that was certainly not the intent of the 14th Amendment.

[John Valentine]

A natural born citizen needs no such clarification. That is why they specifically made the reference to a natural born citizenship as a special requirement. With a natural born citizen there is no question as to their citizenship at all.

Apparently there was such a need, for here you are questioning Ted Cruz's natural born citizenship.

With your loose interpretation an anchor baby is a natural born citizen.

Now you are just making things up. That is NOT my position, in fact it is the opposite of my position. But it happens to be the position adopted by a series of very bad court decisions that need action to correct.

[John Valentine]

Further to my response, I only direct you to Emmerich Vattel: "I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”