[DesertRhino]

“The issue is not citizen by birth but whether Cruz is a NBC”

Same exact thing. Show me anything in the Constitution that there are some people who gain citizenship by birth who are not fully eligible for any office in the country.
Even show a court ruling that such a second class status exists.

You can’t do it.

[kabar]

It is not up to me but the courts. Why do you think the Senate commissioned a study on McCain and issued the following resolution if it were so clear cut? The Courts need to rule on it. Do you know how this issue affected the Chester Arthur campaign?

III 110 THE CONGRESS SESSION S. RES. 511

Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES APRIL10, 2008

Mrs. MCCASKILL(for herself, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. Coburn, Mrs. CLINTON , and Mr. WEBB ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary APRIL 24, 2008 Reported by Mr. LEAHY, without amendment APRIL30, 2008

Considered and agreed to

RESOLUTION

Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.

Whereas the Constitution of the United States requires that, to be eligible for the Office of the President, a person must be a ‘‘natural born Citizen’’ of the United States;

Whereas the term ‘‘natural born Citizen’’, as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States;

Whereas there is no evidence of the intention of the Framers or any Congress to limit the constitutional rights of children born to Americans serving in the military nor to prevent those children from serving as their country’s President;

Whereas such limitations would be inconsistent with the purpose and intent of the ‘‘natural born Citizen’’ clause of the Constitution of the United States, as evidenced by the First Congress’s own statute defining the term ‘‘natural born Citizen’’;

Whereas the well-being of all citizens of the United States is preserved and enhanced by the men and women who are assigned to serve our country outside of our national borders;

Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President; and

Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936:

Now, therefore, be it Resolved,

That John Sidney McCain, III, is a ‘‘natural born Citizen’’ under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States.