The quote above are your words from the previous post..... I was just saying that both Obama's and Cruz's Fathers were Non citizens so even by your argument they are not Natural Born. Then you move the goal posts.
I am not a constitutional scholar but I can read. I understand the intent of the Natural Born Citizen clause. As I see, it makes sense and is brilliant. When I deal with people who take your position, it is as though I am dealing with an unprincipled attorney. I always go back to original intent. AND as I analyze it, I am correct..... Too bad the Supreme Court of the USA has not yet taken up this issue......
No, what the Constitution established early on was that a person could be a citizen if only one parent was a citizen. That is the case with Cruz. It also established that Congress had the power to define these things.
In that day, we had a patriarchal country, women couldn’t vote, and men ruled. That is the reason the father’s citizenship was the crucial issue.
That is the reason for the amendment to the constitution granting women the right to vote. (Article. [XIX.][Proposed 1919; Ratified 1920] The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.)
That has since changed, so now the law reads that only one parent has to be a citizen:
(7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States ‘ or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less ‘ than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age “ of fourteen years: Provided^ That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements “ of this paragraph.”