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“As I understand natural born, neither Obama nor Cruz meet the criteria.. But the constitution is ignored wholesale anymore”

Please provide the passage from the constitution or any statute you believe disqualifies Ted Cruz.

The Naturalization Act of 1790 has this to say about the subject:

And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens: Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States: Provided also, that no person heretofore proscribed by any States, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid, except by an Act of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed.

So it was the understanding of Congress in 1790, that the children born outside the country of U.S. citizens are considered to be natural born citizens so long as the father had been a resident of the United States at some point. Since many of the members of that Congress had been delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and/or signers of the Constitution and/or members of state conventions that ratified the Constitution, that strikes me as a pretty authoritative interpretation of what the Constitution means by the phrase "natural born citizen."