Please show where “citizen” equals “natural born citizen”.
Why can a Senator or Representative be a citizen, but a President must be a natural born citizen?
If the whole idea of adding the words “natural born” to the requirements for President by the Constitutional Convention was to make sure a President did not have divided loyalties to America,how does that apply to someeone not born of two citizen parents?
Ted Cruz was born in Canada, so Canada can claim him as a citizen.
Ted Cruz’s mom was an American, so he can be an American citizen.
Ted Cruz’s dad was a Cuban citizen, so Cuba could claim him as a citizen.
Three countries have a claim on Cruz. How is that not a case of divided loyalties?
Which of the three countries takes precedence?
A law of naturalization does not supplant the Constitution.
Neither does the 14th Amendment change the requirements for the Presidency.
You cannot keep claiming “citizen” is equivalent to “natural born citizen”, otherwise any anchor baby is eligible to be President of the United States.
What matters is how US law reads. The US law is a fact. Fight with that all you want, and at the end of the day it will still be US law. Cruz, by US law, was born an automatic US citizen. That makes him eligible, by US law, for the presidency.
If there were a law to the contrary, I’m sure you’d be citing it.