It has been nailed down, but uninformed people just keep bringing it up. Any question about McCain was smoke and mirrors as his dad was there on military duty but it wouldn't have made any difference as his parents were Americans and that made him an American citizen the minute he was born.
Look at it this way for clarity - consider it heredity. If the mom is an American, she transfers her American citizenship by heredity to the child when he is born. If the father was an American, the child would inherit his American citizenship from him.
The purpose of our forefathers was to prevent an Englishman born and raised in England with his allegiance to England, coming to American and running for president with no allegiance to this country. It would be the same for anyone from a foreign country who had been born in that country and had allegiance to that country, coming here and running for president with no allegiance to this country. A Chinese man born in China, has an allegiance to China and cannot come here and run for president since he has no allegiance to this country.
Cruz was an American when he was born, and from the start, had no allegiance to another country.
This argument will go on a million times on FR due to misinformation.
Let's consider Cruz's father was from Cuba. Did our baby Cruz become a Cuban? No, he was registered at birth as an American from an American mother.
How did you get your citizenship? You were a new piece of humanity. The hospital had birth forms and your parents completed those forms listing you as an American citizen. These forms were sent to the state and the state sent an official birth certificate to your parents. The point is, getting a birth certificate is not magic. At the minute of your birth, a piece of paper does not float down to the delivery room where you are. Your parents must register the birth.
If one parent is French and one parent is Italian, they make a choice as to which you are or they register you as both. If that's the situation and you are born in Germany, they also have a choice to register you as a German. You could have triple citizenship.
My grandson has an American father and an English mother. On the day he was born in England, he was registered as an American citizen and issued an American passport. He was also registered as an English citizen. He wants to come to this country for his college years and he can do that with no problem since he is an American citizen. When he comes here now and lands at the airport, he gets in the American citizen line, not the foreign country line.
He's is not qualified under the Constitution to become president. That's it. Are you one who wants to change The Constitution on your whims? Do you see the result of citizens not following it? The worst president in USA history - his allegiance is not to America. Cruz is out and if he's runs he's just a fraud like barry.
I have been doing some poking on the web and found that a Natural Born Citizen is one who is born to parents who are both citizens of the United States. You have some good information. What you have described is how one can be a citizen of the United States, but a Natural Born Citizen is different. In Senator Ted Cruz’s situation, he was born to a citizen mother but had a non-citizen father who did not become naturalized until 2005. Both parents were not citizens. He may be a citizen but does not fit the requirements of being a Natural Born Citizen.
For a good look at what’s out there, go here:
http://obamanotqualified.com/obama_is_not_a_natural_born_citizen_defined.htm