You are very welcome. It's the product of about 2 years of reading everything available on the subject, including all the major court cases and all the arguments on both sides, and sorting those out.
It would be really nice to have the matter addressed by the Supreme Court. As the foreign born population increases in the US, I expect this question to come up more frequently.
It would be. I would love to have the US Supreme Court stand up and say, "This is the definition of natural born citizen for Presidential purposes," including all the issues of people like Ted Cruz.
However, it's not going to happen, at least not until and unless someone like Cruz runs for President, is sued, and the case reaches the Supreme Court.
And part of me is not sure it would matter if they did issue such a proclamation. Every major legal scholar including every known conservative legal foundation, is agreed that you don't have to have citizen parents in order to be eligible for President, as long as your parents lived here in the US and you were born here.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, for example - a Reagan appointee - said that Obama, born in Hawaii, was "clearly" a natural born citizen because of that fact alone. Like Obama or hate him, that's the Constitution. That's the law.
Early legal scholar William Rawle was equally clear.
That still hasn't stopped an unfortunate number of people from adamantly claiming otherwise. Nor has it stopped them from extending their hatred of Obama (which I have no problem with as I frankly hate him too!) to folks like Ted Cruz.
Spelling the word “Crap” is easier, Jeff. It takes far less effort, and it achieves the same result.