I found this on another thread. I can’t remember who posted it. Apparently their have been some rulings pertaining to this.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/10/18/4-supreme-court-cases-define-natural-born-citizen/
I think the purpose of the NBC requirement is to ensure that nobody who was ever a citizen of or owed allegiance to another country could run for President. I am fairly certain that the founders did not intend somebody who was a citizen of another country until he was 43 years old and already running for President to be considered a NBC. Cruz claims he did not know he was a Canadian citizen until the Dallas Morning News pointed it out to him in 2013. I don’t believe for one second that a supposedly brilliant, Harvard trained lawyer did not know his own citizenship status. I think Cruz has been purposely deceitful about this issue.
Unfortunately, all of the cases cited in the article only discussed, in general terms, that a child born of citizen parents in the country were natural born. The rest of the article is the author’s interpretation of the cases.
None of the cases states that BOTH parents have to be citizens or that there is a specific number of years that the parent must be a citizen before conferring NBC status to the children. In fact, each case states common law as the basis for the interpretation of the NBC definition in which the father, at the time of the cases, could convey citizenship. However, the law at the time of Cruz’s birth allowed EITHER parent to confer that citizenship, which was defined by Congress. So according to these cases, Cruz, if born in the U.S. would no doubt be a NBC.
Furthermore, this interpretation of the NBC definition did not discuss that any children born of citizen parents on a U.S. military base overseas were or were not considered NBC. Yet, both the founders and common law have stated that these children should be considered NBC despite, there has never been any SCOTUS or Constitution definition of the full NBC definition. It would be hard to imagine that displace citizen parents fighting for our country could not confer NBC status. Since this has never been decided by SCOTUS and is not defined by the Constitution then we would have to look at common law, which clearly shows that children born of displaced citizen parents can confer NBC status, which would include Cruz.
“I think Cruz has been purposely deceitful”
You can think all you want, but you can’t prove anything. Cruz may very well have believed that he wasn’t a dual citizen because the citizenship rules vary by country and even in the U.S. the citizenship rules have changed at least 6 different times since 1900. Cruz never accepted his dual status.
Too bad that you seem to trust Trump even though Trump is still lying about his current and recent past liberal positions on the issues. Cruz had a possible excuse, but Trump has none!