No legitimate authority has ever established that “Natural Born Citizen” is MORE restrictive than “a citizen at birth.”
The TEXT of the Constitution would make no sense if the qualifications for President were identical to those for the Congress, because being a “citizen” is required for the Congress, while “Natural Born citizen” is required for the Presidency. So we can be certain that “Natural Born citizen” is not synonymous with “citizen.”
But there is no conclusive argument that NBC is MORE restrictive than “citizen at birth.”
The oft-cited Minor v. Happersett does NOT establish a requirement of birth to two citizen parents. What it says is that “it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” But the Court did NOT say that ONLY those born of two citizen parents are “natural-born citizens.” In fact, the decision explicitly acknowledges this.
Ted Cruz was a citizen at the moment of his birth. That is SUFFICIENT to qualify as a NBC.
If Barry Soetoro is the son of Barack Hussein Obama, (as claimed on the crudely-forged birth certificate with the typefaces of six different typewriters on it) of Kenya, then Soetoro was a British Subject at birth—and STILL IS A BRITISH SUBJECT—and an illegal alien.
If Barry Soetoro is the son of Frank Marshall Davis, then Soetoro IS a Natural Born Citizen. But he isn’t Barack Hussein Obama.
If Barry Soetoro became an Indonesian citizen, then whatever he was at birth, he is NOW an illegal alien.
So, please, lamestream media, let there be a FULL AIRING of this issue. Please, please, place the story of Ted Cruz’s citizenship right alongside the story of Barry Soetoro’s citizenship!
It floats the idea that there natural born citizen is a separate status based on two citizen parents. It acknowledges that some make the legal argument. Then it specifically states that it's moot, because there is no doubt the person in question had two citizens for parents, so they don't have to make a decision on that matter. It's an interesting legal footnote, not any kind of precedent.