You dwell on the word “citizens,” and you argue the law means a child born abroad of two American citizens is a natural born citizen. You would be correct if the law read CHILD of American citizens (meaning a CHILD born abroad of two American citizens is a natural-born citizens.
The law clearly states CHILDREN of CITIZENS, both plurals, but that can only be read as a CHILD of a CITIZEN if there was only one child born of the union of the father and mother. In which case, only one parent need be an American citizen to have that CHILD a natural-born citizen.
Cruz claims that his condition is covered by the Naturalization Act of 1790 yet doesn't mention the fact that his condition is actually covered by the Act which repealed it in 1795.
The term "citizens" as I argue it is correct as any application of this Act would have been. applied on an individual case basis.
I am a Cruz fan, but I believe that this question should be answered by the courts before the General election. Ted Cruz should put this behind him before it gets a chance to become a major distraction.
If you will recall... it was people supporting Hillary’s campaign that brought it up with Obama to begin with. Only a fool would not believe that there is going to be a major double standard by the media with how they will handle this as compared to Obama. Cruz has been up front about all of this, but we must remember all of the effort Obama went to convince the electorate that he was born in Hawaii. If Obama’s people didn’t feel it was important... why was so much effort put into convincing us that he was not born abroad?
Why did you chop off the second preposition in the phrase?
The complete phrase is "children of citizens of the United States".
The "citizens of the US" are all the citizens in the US.
Children of the citizens of the US, are all children of all citizens of the US.
The law clearly states CHILDREN of CITIZENS, both plurals, but that can only be read as a CHILD of a CITIZEN if there was only one child born of the union of the father and mother. In which case, only one parent need be an American citizen to have that CHILD a natural-born citizen.
Weasel. Words...Please provide the appropriate link to the above..thanks.