The Supreme Court did already decide how to define Natural-born Citizen in Minor v. Happersett. That definition was affirmed in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark and the Minor precedent on presidential eligibility was affirmed in Luria v. United States. IOW, 27 Supreme Court justices agreed with Minor that NBC is defined as all children born in the country to citizen parents. Those born outside the country and born to an alien father can only become citizens through the naturalization authority of Congress.
And that edge919, is my understanding too, thus because of those decisions, unfortunately, Ted Cruz can not be considered a “natural born” citizen. He is a citizen, just not natural born.
Have you ever read ‘Minor v. Happersett’? It doesn’t conclude anything of the sort. I know if you read it on the Internet it must be true because “no one can put anything on the Internet that isn’t true”, however, that is false, too. People pass lies to each other over and over until someday someone like you quotes it as gospel.
The affirmation of judgment in Minor v. Happersett merely states they agree that a one form of natural born citizen is by two parents of a child born in the US, but in no way do they exclude any other natural born citizenship, as stated, “For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.” They did not go into the other means of natural citizenship, so they did not exclude them.