Good for you. We’re all conservatives here, aren’t we?
Look, I’m not a legal expert, nor am I going to try and masquerade as one. But I have read a little about Cruz’s citizenship issue.
The founders didn’t define “natural born citizen”, but a particular law, 8 U.S. code 1801 that defines “citizens of the U.S. at birth.” One of the listed categories includes people born outside of the country to one parent who is a U.S. citizen and one who is an alien. The citizen parent must have lived in the U.S. for at least five years, two of them after age 14.
It seems to me Cruz would be eligible to run for president.
Didn't Congress write 8 U.S. code 1801?
“The founders didn’t define “natural born citizen”, ...”
Because they knew what it meant. They didn’t define “citizen” either, because they knew what it meant. They also didn’t define “amendment”, because they knew what it meant. Etc., etc. ...