Yes, I’m aware of that argument. However, it’s a moot point when one has been taught since childhood by EVERY single teacher or professor that BOTH parents must be U.S. citizens to confer “Natural Born” status to a child born overseas.
In talking with my 90-year-old Grandmother (a retired lawyer), she too says that she was taught all her life that BOTH parents had to be U.S. Citizens to confer Natural Born status when a child was born abroad.
It wasn’t until Obama came on the scene that such a seemingly succinct, perfect, and well-known definition was been tortured to death by everybody and his brother.
Now, it doesn’t seem to matter to anyone. Just as long as it’s “not my guy.”
Hell, if both of Cruz’s parents were non-citizens and he were born in Canada, but his great-great-great-grandparents had been U.S. citizens at one point in time, I’m sure one could drum up the appropriate “scholars” who would make claims that Cruz was Natural Born via historic bloodline.
That is all.
Over and out.
Erratum: “definition was been tortured to death” should be “definition HAS been tortured to death”
Over and out.
“EVERY single teacher or professor that BOTH parents must be U.S. citizens to confer “Natural Born” status to a child born overseas.”
There must be old civics books and history books that show that.
Do you know if anyone has ever produced such a book?