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“His Mom was/is a U.S. Citizen.”

All that means is his parents had the right to request the U.S. Department of State to grant their child born with Canadian citizenship with an optional right to claim U.S. citizenship in accordance with artificial statutory law of the U.S. Code. Such U.S. citizenship was acquired by right of statutory law and artificial law and not by natural law. Natural born citizenship is by self definition that citizenship which is acquired by the authority of natural law and not by artificial law, manmade law, or statutory law. Any citizenship conferred by artificial manmade law is by definition not natural law or natural citizenship.

I know that, but that is not the issue. Natural born citizen has never been defined as it applies to the eligibility requirement in the Constitution.

Cruz got his citizenship thru jus sanguinis, i.e., thru his mother. When Cruz was born in Calgary, his mother had to register his birth at the US Consulate to convey citizenship. But Cruz was also a Canadian citizen at birth thru birthright citizenship, i.e., jus solis.

If you read the Tribe-Olson opinion on McCain you will find that they found McCain eligible on the basis of both jus sanguinis (both parents US citizens and jus solis, McCain was born in the Canal Zone, considered a US territory. In that same opinion they found Obama eligible because he was born in Hawaii.

So the question is do the children of illegal aliens who are citizens automatically thru jus solis,, i.e., birthright citizenship eligible to be President as a natural born citizens. 300,000 children are born to illegal aliens annually. The same holds true for non-US citizen tourists here on visas or green card holders.

The Courts have never ruled on the issue. It needs to be done sooner rather than later. Cruz would be the first President ever born outside the country and having only one US citizen parent.

The controversy over Chester A. Arthur's eligibility over 120 years ago is instructive. Also, the reason why Obama's birthplace matters is that under the laws at the time, his mother would not have been able to convey citizenship to him even though she was an American citizen.