“As to your formulaic approach to the determination of nbc status, I would only point out that what you seem to believe are requirements are no such thing. They are mere indicia.”
“what you seem to believe are requirements are no such thing.”
“seem to believe”??? “no such requirement”???
“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.”
Where is your wiggle room?
“The fact that they appear to have evolved or changed over time is evidence of that.”
The Constitution prescribes how it is to be amended. The NBC clause has never been amended.
Why are my questions irrelevant and trivial? Because to answer them would require you to abandon the delusional narrative that Cruz is a NBC?
Clear? Yes.
But NOWHERE does this document establish the indicia you demand to use for determining any specific individual's NBC status. So, what are you trying to prove by quoting the Constitution to me? I probably know it as well as or better than you in the first place.
Either you are being intentionally obtuse or you are too dense to get it. Either way, I will give you the generally accepted definition of a natural born citizen one more time:
“A natural born citizen is one whose claim to citizenship derives naturally from the circumstances of his or her birth so that there is a natural and abiding connection between the child and the society and nation into which he or she is born.”