I have no clue whatsoever why you keep dragging in the topic of courts ruling on the qualifications of presidents. I never mentioned it. Are you trying to evade the issue.
“Your theory that both parents must be a citizen of the United States to produce a natural born citizen is a theory that you are free to use when you evaluate candidates for President. Other people have other theories.”
“Your theory”?
Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia on “theory”:
Charles Evans Hughes[edit]
The eligibility of Charles Evans Hughes was questioned in an article written by Breckinridge Long, one of Woodrow Wilson’s campaign workers, and published on December 7, 1916 in the Chicago Legal News — a full month after the U.S. presidential election of 1916, in which Hughes was narrowly defeated by Woodrow Wilson. Long claimed that Hughes was ineligible because his father was not yet naturalized at the time of his birth and was still a British citizen (in fact, both his parents were British citizens and never became U.S. citizens). Observing that Hughes, although born in the United States, was also (according to British law) a British subject and therefore “enjoy[ed] a dual nationality and owe[d] a double allegiance”, Long argued that a native born citizen was not natural born without a unity of U.S. citizenship and allegiance and stated: “Now if, by any possible construction, a person at the instant of birth, and for any period of time thereafter, owes, or may owe, allegiance to any sovereign but the United States, he is not a ‘natural-born’ citizen of the United States.” [78]
“Did the Supreme Court believe that he was qualified to be President? Of course, they did?”
The Supreme refused to take up the topic based on what you have previously stated that the courts are not the ones to make that kind of decision. But it is interesting that you use the Supreme Court as the correct default position of what is and is not Constitutional.
In my opinion, if Hughes was a citizen at birth, then he was qualified to be President. He later became a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and he, too, apparently hought he was qualified to be president.
I presume that anyone who becomes a justice of the Supreme Court is as qualified as the average Freeper to analyze the Constitutional provisions regarding presidential qualifications. When Chief Justice Roberts volunteered to administer the oath of office to Obama, it signaled to me that he did not believe that there existed any Constitutional hurdle to Obama serving as President.
In my view, anyone who is a citizen at birth qualifies as a natural born citizen. Accordingly, I believe that Ted Cruz is qualified to be President and I support his candidacy.
I recognize that other people might disagree with me. I recognize that the Constitution could have more clearly defined the term natural born citizen. As a voter, I have to work with what the Founders left for me. I believe that if a candidate was a citizen at birth, there exists the kind of nexus between the candidate and this country that the provision appears to favor. But, every voter should consider these issues. It is part of the job of picking a President.