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These posts are getting beyond stupid.

I won't say the matter has been beyond stupid from the beginning. But I do think there has been dishonesty from the very beginning by some people who have made the extraordinary citizenship claims.

By "extraordinary," I mean claims that have no credibility at all in history or in law.

All you need to do is look at the IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT itself, and it clearly states that Cruz's Citizenship is through 'Naturalization'. I guess you can't understand that 'Naturalization' can be an automatic process.

The First Congress passed a "Naturalization Act" in 1790, less than 2 years after the Constitution was ratified and became the supreme law of the land. That Act specified that children born abroad to US citizens were to be considered as natural born citizens, provided only that the father had lived in the US at some point in his life.

The Congress and President that approved the Act included 40% of the Signers of the Constitution.

So it is clear that the Signers of the Constitution believed Congress had the power to specify, through a "naturalization act," who among those born abroad were to be legally considered as natural born citizens, and thus eligible to the Presidency.

Here is section 320, the one that applies to Cruz.

I don't know Cruz's family history in intimate detail, but assume his dad wasn't a US citizen yet. So almost certainly, the section that applies to him is Section 301(a)(7):

Sec. 301(a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:...

(7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable serivce in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements of this paragraph.

This is why every major commentator who publicly comments on it says he's most likely eligible.