you are mistaken.
it’s not not about whether or not he can give up his citizenship. it’s whether he had more then one citizenship to start with.
i am in the same situation as your son. my allegiances were split at birth between the love of my birth country and that of my mother’s. this sympathetic feeling towards another country is the ‘split allegiance’ the Founders talked about. it’s not about whether or not i filled paperwork to drop my British citizenship/passport.
the other point would be the concern of the Founders that no foreign king could be POTUS. using the logic on display in this thread, it would be possible for William and Kate to fly to NYC, have a kid, fly home, have him become king at 18, move to the US at 20, and run for president at 34. giving up his British citizenship wouldn’t matter, as he would be the British king.
this just further proves the point. the Founders were well aware of the definition of ‘natural born citizen’ in 1776 as the ‘law of nations’ was published in 1758 containing the definition of on the soil and of 2 citizen parents... leaving no possibility of another citizenship. a ‘pure’ citizen, if you will.
“i am in the same situation as your son. my allegiances were split at birth between the love of my birth country and that of my mother’s.”
You must have been super smart at birth to have allegiance (love) for two countries at that moment. Your mental state of love does not affect US citizenship law. You can keep both citizenships or you can relinguish one to have allegiance to only one country.
Cruz was brought here as a baby, grew up here and had no allegiance at all to Canada but he did give up that citizenship to Canada to remove all doubt as to his allegiance.
Cruz