Ah, but does citizenship by circumstances of birth equate to natural born citizen?
If it does,the Congress cannot pass laws naturalizing by the condition of birth... but such laws exist:
8 U.S. Code Part I - Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization has a section called Nationals and citizens of United States at birth, such law [the US Code] is passed by Congress, and therefore must be subject to the powers delegated by Art 1, Sec 8 [and amendments] — the only such power [regarding citizenship] so delegated is that of naturalization, so this section must be covering naturalization, and so we see that naturalization can cover circumstances of birth.
Might I assert that allowing these to define natural born citizen is folly, for if we allow that then we must allow the ability for them to define arms
and infringed
and press
and speech
and then the Constitution becomes meaningless because it may be altered at will by normal legislative actions.
You can assert anything you wish but it doesn’t make it so.
Cruz is a natural born U.S. citizen. Period.