“The issue is there is NO legal definition of Natural Born citizen so all the whining in the world won’t change anything”
The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”. Cruz knows this. That is why he doesn’t officially acknowledge he is a Article 2 Section 1 ‘natural born Citizen’ but rather a ‘U.S. Citizen’.
A memorandum to Congress dated April 3, 2009, written by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), states:
Considering the history of the constitutional qualifications provision, the common use and meaning of the phrase “natural-born subject” in England and in the Colonies in the 1700s, the clause’s apparent intent, the subsequent action of the first Congress in enacting the Naturalization Act of 1790 (expressly defining the term “natural born citizen” to include a person born abroad to parents who are United States citizens), as well as subsequent Supreme Court dicta, it appears that the most logical inferences would indicate that the phrase “natural born Citizen” would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship “at birth” or “by birth”.
Do You Col Case really think that IF ( and this is what is amazing to me, this is a HUGE IF yet you seem consumed by something that might not happen)
but IF Senator Cruz decides to run he would be ruled ineligible?