Any child, born to two NBCs, in a different nation, due to the parent or parents serving in the military, becomes an NBC, once the parents apply for it through the American embassy in that country!
Cruz was NOT eligible for that distinction.
All of this has been thoroughly discussed, many time over here.
Cruz was NOT eligible for that distinction.
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Carry that incorrect thought out to its conclusion and you’ll find that Goldwater was ineligible.
But if you look at the facts - any US citizens is eligible to serve as POTUS.
History proves this to be true.
McCain was never POTUS eligible.
He was a naturalized citizen—a citizen by statute.
The U.S. is not constrained by Natural Law or the Law of Nations but instead had and has always had its options about how to handle the question of whether and under what conditions the foreign born children of U.S. citizens are to be recognized as U.S. citizens.
By contrast, Congress since the adoption of the U.S. Constitution (which contains the uniquely exclusionary term natural born citizen) has never had any such discretion as to whether a child born here of a mother and a father, both U.S. citizens at the time, shall be recognized as a U.S. citizen. The U.S. Constitution, and the presence therein (and the original meaning) of the term in question, forces Congress’ hand, and denies it any such discretion. This is a good thing!