[SoConPubbie]

Now, if a challenge ever made it to the Supreme Court, your outside list of authorities might be taken into consideration(dependent on the politicization of the court case), but only in the context of the current, not in the context of the founding of the country.

Let me modify this somewhat.

If a case made it to the Supreme Court, there would probably, dependent on the Justice (i.e. Scalia vs. Ginsburg) and their political leanings and their fidelity to the correct purpose of their position, will take the original interpretation into consideration.

I'd believe that Scalia would probably be the most honest in application of outside authorities. Ginsburg, on the other hand, would filter any decision she made through a political filter of what would most protect her political world view. She might see Cruz as a threat and so would lean most heavily on one of your outside authorities, or, she might think that allowing Cruz to be considered eligible would benefit Hillary Clinton or whomever was the Democrat Nominee as she might think he would be the easiest to beat.

To a Marxist like Ginsburg, rules don't mean anything, it is the outcome that matters.

[DiogenesLamp]

If a case made it to the Supreme Court, there would probably, dependent on the Justice (i.e. Scalia vs. Ginsburg) and their political leanings and their fidelity to the correct purpose of their position, will take the original interpretation into consideration.

I'm not interested in discussing what any current court would decide. It's my opinion that the entire legal system took a wrong turn back at Wong Kim Ark (though the Wong opinion is not necessarily incorrect, rather it is merely how subsequent people have interpreted it as applying to other situations which is incorrect.)

The Modern legal system is currently polluted with numerous false doctrines, and is therefore unsuitable to analyze this question until those false doctrines are extirpated.

I'm interested in starting with the people who absolutely know the correct answer, and working my way up from there. And that means starting with the Delegates who wrote, debated, and voted on the law.

These are the only actual authorities with first hand knowledge.