[Jeff Winston]

I doubt his Constitutional eligibility for the Presidency.

Don't. According to the major Constitutional authorities of the early United States, who knew our Founding Generation and many of the Founding Fathers themselves personally, "natural born citizen" really just means "born a citizen." And Cruz is perfectly eligible.

[Paine in the Neck]

According to the major Constitutional authorities of the early United States, who knew our Founding Generation and many of the Founding Fathers themselves personally, "natural born citizen" really just means "born a citizen." And Cruz is perfectly eligible.

I do not agree and I'd like to hear of your sources. It is plain by the text of Art. I that they thought a 'citizen' and a 'natural born citizen' were separate things.