So then it means what it meant when the framers wrote it...born here to two citizen parents.
From Forty-niner: “While Natural Born citizens are all Born Citizens not all Born Citizens are Natural Born Citizens.”
You are both coming around to what I wrote in my original post. It took a lot to get you there, but you did finally arrive.
You both insist that there are 3 legal definitions of Citizen. You might split hairs, as you did above, and say that there are TWO types of born citizens but that is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
My answer to you both is that the current working legal definition of citizenship stands as only TWO types, naturalized and NBC. You two have the right to disagree, but it will take a SC decision or written legislation to CHANGE the current working definition. As such Cruz is ELIGIBLE. Does that mean he is ELECTABLE? That is another matter.
And to a later remark by Rocklobster it has nothing to do with either opinion or climate change. It has to do with those that won’t change their view of the matter in the face of 50 states nominating boards and about a half dozen court rulings. That’s your right, of course.
My hope is that once we get our marginally documented first black president out of the oval office our nation can proceed with the process to actually DEFINE what NBC should be from this point out to eliminate any confusion.