Natural born is the highest level of purity, no dilution, the cleanest title, no blemishes, the highest pedigree, one generation back.
The concept is easy to understand, since it’s what the title of your car or the deed to your house is saying to you as a buyer or seller.
The concept is easy to understand if you raise, show or sell purebred animals, such as dogs and cats or livestock.
It’s easy to understand if you’re playing “Who is the most Irish?” on St. Patty’s day, that the person born in Ireland to Irish parents is going to beat any that doesn’t start there. The rest are Irish enough for drinks and self-esteem and even a popularity contest, but not the highest standard.
The highest standard, the one that every citizen innately understands and agrees with, is a person born here to American parents is a natural born American citizen. Simple, easy to understand. No argument or disagreements. We start with that highest standard.
It works if you take apply that standard to any other nation and its citizens, where things like citizenship and nationality actually still mean something, even though you claim they don’t.
It may not matter to you, but some people want to believe that the one person with that much power over all of us had damn well better be one of us, not by treaty, not by someone’s law, not by the ruling of a monarch or emperor or judge, but simply because their title is clean and clear, the pedigree is pure one generation back. Love them or hate them, they are one of us.
But…if mom or dad or where they are born isn’t all American, then their title is blemished.
It can be cleaned up and made whole and good, but the blemish remains and, until the Constitution is changed, is a disqualifier for only one office in all the land and all of that concentrated power.
Mom, Dad and dirt must all agree to keep it in the Natural (not native) Born Family.
Keep it simple. Stop moving the goal posts. Stop changing the rules to fit your moment or the Constitution to fit your agenda.
People who do those things lack integrity and aren’t to be trusted.
Your teachers were wrong.
Your teachers had no authority to lead you down the wrong path.
They were in error when they taught you.
You are in error now.
What you believe is not true today, and has never been true in the history of this country.
You are wrong.
There are ONLY two forms of Citizenship in the United States:
Natural Born
Naturalized
There is NO living legal authority in the country who disagrees with me on these points.
What is it about Ted Cruz that makes you doubt that Ted Cruz is as much "one of us" as any of our past presidents?
We're taking about our Constitution here, not cars, homes, dogs, cats, livestock or Irish drinking games. Why should we adopt a rule based upon how easy it is for you to remember?
Reason is wasted on that one.