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.
Your views and opinions and my views and opinions don’t really matter. That is why I quoted the Naturalization Act of 1790 as a source document as to what the Founders meant. The Constitutions does not define numerous concepts it mentions because the Founders based their wording on commonly accepted understanding of the terms then in existence.