Natural Born Citizen = born on the soil of the country to two citizen parents.
Ted Cruz fails both requirements.
So did Obama, but who cares about that musty old parchment any more? Isn’t it a living Constitution anyway?
That seems to have been the standard for the past 226 years.
The Constitution doesn’t have the words “soil” or “two citizen parents” in it. If you’re adding in things based on future laws, which you must be, short of an outright misinterpretation, then we know our laws made Cruz a citizen at birth. So he’s natural-born.
Not necessarily so.
That definition is sufficient but it is not exclusive. IOW, someone who fits those qualifications is clearly a NBC, but so might others be who do NOT meet that definition. If your definition were to be accepted the following past Presidential candidates (and there may be more) would have been ineligible to take office:
George Romney
Barry Goldwater
John McCain
Barack Obama
And among the current crop, both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz would be ineligible.
And, if the phony 'dual citizenship' standard were adopted, so would Donald Trump, since he is eligible for British citizenship merely asserting his right to it.
Natural Born Citizen = born on the soil of the country to two citizen parents.
Ted Cruz fails both requirements.
So did Obama, but who cares about that musty old parchment any more?
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Shouldn’t this be the issue regarding RUBIO? Neither of his parents were US citizens, so he’s just a Cuban anchor baby!
The following is directly from the US Constitution. Where is the part that defines natural born citizen? The fact that is not defined is why there is so much discussion. Your definition is just that, your definition.
5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Wellll ... kinda. See, if mama and daddy obama were not considered to have a valid marriage, due to daddy obama already being married, then little barry would be a straight up bastard. THEN he would be 100% eligible (we go with the assumption he was indeed born in HI) because a bastard childs citizenship always followed the mother - regardless. It did back then as it does now.