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I say BS! There is no way the original intent was to let partial foreigners be eligible. Common sense would indicate that NBC means born in the native country to citizens (plural) of that country.

You are correct because of the simple "grandfathered" sentence that appears in [Article II; Section I]:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Thus....according to the framers...... there indeed was a difference between NBC and a "plain" ole' citizen....otherwise they would not have differentiated the two.

Natural born = two citizen parents.... born where ever; Native born = born within the territorial limits of the country to non-citizen parents or born abroad to one citizen parent; Naturalized = Citizenship by statute. Three types.....always has been!

FWIW..............I think Ted Cruz would be a magnificent President. He's a magnificent Senator....already! But.....he is not a Natural Born Citizen. So what? Neither is the clown who sits there now!

I believe a precedent has been set.

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

I wonder if we have any Constitutionsal scholars here who could and would address that.

Natural born = two citizen parents.... born where ever; "Native born = born within the territorial limits of the country to non-citizen parents or born abroad to one citizen parent; Naturalized = Citizenship by statute. Three types.....always has been!
FWIW..............I think Ted Cruz would be a magnificent President. He's a magnificent Senator....already! But.....he is not a Natural Born Citizen. So what? Neither is the clown who sits there now!

I believe a precedent has been set."

I agree with all of the above! (Though Allen West and Sarah Palin are favorites of mine as well).

I have a question that I have been attempting to get answered and I get no response. That question is: If a Canadian woman marries an American man on American soil, and they have children - are those children American because they were born here? Or are they Canadian because of their mother's Canadian citizenship?

And, FWIW, even though I still believe Cruz has questionable eligibility, I love the man and will support him 100% if he is our nominee. I agree with Diego 1618: A precedent has been set. Congress has chosen to do nothing about Obama's ineligibility, and that has opened a pandora's box