NBC is defined by the Cato Institute and many others the same way Levin defines it and Ted Cruz defines it and the controlling law cited in the article defines it.
Nobody said NBC doesn’t matter. All have said it matters and is defined as, a citizen when born, as opposed to a citizen later by naturalization. And by statute is defined based on at least one parent who is an American citizen of a certain age and certain years of residency in the United States (among other possible statutory definitions), which Ted Cruz clearly meets through his mother, and which is NOT based on whether the mother gives birth while temporarily over a boundary line.
Others refuse to accept that as the legal definition and do little but ride their horse 24/7.
No need to mischaracterize us.
:: is defined based on at least one parent who is an American citizen ::
Here is where I depart. The founders included the NBC phrase as was common knowledge among the citizens of the colonies. NBC meant born of citizens parentS[sic-plural] on US soil or abroad while in service to the US.
When born to a parent of different nationality, does that confer citizenship to the other country?
Look at it in the inverse, what is the ^full^ citizenship status of a child born in New York City in 1776 of a father who is a US citizen and a mother who is a French colonialist from New Orleans?
Don’t we recognize the Frencgh citizenship of that child (dual citizenship) and, at some point, have that child accept or renounce their French rights?
Do you consider this child eligible for POTUS?