[djf]

Exactly.

Natural born citizen:
Citizen parents(plural)
Born in the country

Cruz:
Citizen parent(singular)
Not Born in the country

Remember, no act of legislation, and not even a Constitutional amendment can make a “natural born citizen” out of a person who would not have been accepted as one at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.

[katiedidit1]

. Federal law says that people born outside the U.S. to a parent or parents who are citizens and who have lived in the country are considered citizens at birth.
Cruz is eligible. His mother is American, his father became an American citizen before Cruz was born. Cruz has lived in the US since he was 4 yrs old and would bet any court would give him the well deserved green light to run.

[staytrue]

sorry but natural born needs only one parent (the mom) to be a citizen.

This is because if Canada and the USA both required both parents to be citizens, then Cruz would be a citizen of no country on earth, would have no place to live and the baby would have to be dumped in the trash, ocean or whereever.

The two parent rule should be illegal due to pure stupidity.

And I say “preferably the mom” because before 1980, you only have the mom’s word for it on who the dad is and I’m sure the founding fathers were aware of adultery and may have done some of their own screwing around.

the final problem with the two parent rule is suppose a citizen mom is pregnant with a sperm donor of unknown origin (either via sperm bank or one night stand), then what ?

furthermore, who do you count as the father, the father who raised the child from birth or the biological father.

next is the question of do the parents need to be citizens at conception or at the day the baby pops out of the womb.

[entropy12]

Cruz can produce a Hawaii birth Certificate put together with computer Graphics.