[odawg]

“Ted Cruz was a citizen, even a natural born citizen, on the instant of his birth.”

When I was in high school, in my llth grade American history class, before this was ever an issue, we were taught that natural born meant both parents were citizens. Why was that taught?

[nathanbedford]

Because your teacher, and thereafter you, were misinformed unless you were perhaps a student at the University of Virginia Law school and were taught by Antonin Scalia in which case you misunderstood him.

Seriously, there were times in American history when foreign birth (natural) citizenship required the father to be a citizen, or both, but of course that was not the case at the time of the birth of Ted Cruz abroad.

[BlackElk]

Probably because you attended a public skewel and your teacher was ignorant.