The same goes for Sen. Barry Goldwater, the GOP’s nominee in 1964, who was born in Arizona. The problem? Arizona wasn’t a state yet.
There’s no shortage of historical and scholarly thought on the presidential eligibility of a U.S. citizen board abroad (And Harvard Law graduate Cruz has likely read most of it.)
But here’s the bottom line: Courts, based on long-standing precedent derived from as far back as English common law and the First Congress, would be all but certain to say that Cruz, as the son of an American mother, qualifies as a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as the commander-in-chief.
In other words, experts say: as long as you have one parent who’s an American citizen – no matter where you’re born – you’re a “natural born citizen,” one of the qualifications under the Constitution to serve as president.
Why are we revisting this yet again? Must be a slow night to be digging up articles from 2015…
That leaves out Kamala, who had ZERO American parents at the time of her birth.
“Cruz, as the son of an American mother, qualifies as a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as the commander-in-chief.”
That means that king George himself could sire a child thru an American woman, and the founders would consider the son of king George eligible? And you really believe that?
Quite simply if that were true, there would be no need for a NBC clause, as citizen would do. But there is a NBC clause, and what seperates NBC from citizen, is divided loyalties at birth.
A natural born citizen can be claimed by no other country at the time of birth. Divided loyalties are exactly what the natural born clause was meant to stop. Heck why do you think the years a citizen exemption was put in? Because none at the time could satisfy the NBC.
“as the son of an American mother, qualifies as a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as the commander-in-chief.”
LIE!
“as long as you have one parent who’s an American citizen – no matter where you’re born – you’re a “natural born citizen,”
LIE!
Born on US soil to TWO US citizen parentS.
It’s what the framers/founders said, It’s what the framers/founders MEANT!
The decision to use the common term “natural born citizen”, which the framers/founders understood to mean Born on US soil to TWO US citizen parentS, in retrospect today was a poor choice.
It is misunderstood by most and the framers/founders are no longer here to testify.
Just another example of "experts" being wrong.