And you are a constitutional expert? Have we heard your name? If there were anything to this a real expert would have said so, and none have from either side.
Of course you are free to say anything you want, just don’t expect anyone to take your word on anything if you are going down that road.
use your brain, use logic. stop making lame illogical “appeals to authority”. Levin has avoided this issue like the plague because any other conclusion leaves you in an extremely uncomfortable place.
The key point is that the constitution uses both of these terms, “natural born citizen” and “citizen” for describing eligibility as president and as a member of congress, respectively. HOW are the terms different from each other. One has to define something categorically different from the other.
Taking Cruz’s case, he has had to stretch and twist in order to accomodate someone for whom: 1) Was NOT born on American soil, and 2) One parent was not American.
So he hung everything on the ideas of an American mother and residency requirements. Does that pass the smell test as “natural born citizen” for you? So, how is that different from a citizen?
So, show some thinking. You are supposedly a conservative. Produce a logical rebuttal that gives clear distinctions between “natural born citizen” and “citizen”.