Binney also said:
“The state of the law in the United States is easily
deduced. -The notion that there is any common law
principle to naturalize the children born in foreign
countries, of native-born American father and mother,
father or mother, must be discarded. There is not and
never was any such common law principle. “
You seem to have left that part off when you posted the second part of that:
But the common law principle of allegiance, was the law of all the States at the time of the Revolution, and at the
adoption of the Constitution; and by that principle the
citizens of the United States are, with the exceptions
before mentioned, such only as are either born or made
so, born within the limits and under the urisdiction of
the United States, or naturalized by the authority of
law, either in one of the States before the Constitution,
or since that time, by virtue of an Act of the Congress
of the United States.”
Not the English common law of natural born Subject, but the common law of allegiance.
I’ve seen some of these After-birther blogs like the one you pasted up here. They carefully snip parts of the text, just the parts that “support” the claim that simply being born on the soil is all that is necessary to be a nbC.
They post an enormous volume of references, many which contradict each other if you had the time to read more than just the carefully selected snips. You just try to overwhelm and distract rather than have a focused discussion.
Has there ever been someone born in America declared ineligible for the presidency on these grounds?
No, I cited a very large chunk of a US Supreme Court opinion.
The common law definition of Natural Born Subject is what created our common law definition of Natural Born Citizen.
There are two ways to be a US citizen - birth, or naturalization. Someone naturalized is allowed to hold any office except President. For President, you must be born a US citizen. And Cruz WAS born a US citizen. As was Obama, sadly. And that is all it takes. If you are a US citizen, and you were not naturalized, then you are a NBC.