Thank you.
People need to stop and think about what the Framers were trying to accomplish with the NBC clause.
They were attempting to screen out and disallow any person with divided loyalties from assuming the office of President. The simplest way to do that, was to restrict the office to those citizens who were naturally attached to the country through the circumstance of their birth. It makes perfect sense that such people's first allegiance would be to our country, and to our people.
I said earlier that it would have been a stroke of genius for the Framers to attach an addendum to the Constitution which explained their reasoning for every Article, Section, and Clause. That act could have saved our country centuries of argument over the Constitution's true meaning, and would probably even have prevented the country from drifting so far from our founding principles.
Unfortunately, they assumed that the plain language of the day was sufficient for any person to grasp what sort of government they'd created. In hindsight, we see that it is not.
In the case of the eligibility requirements for the office of President, what's paramount is the individual's loyalty to our country and the Constitution. If that question can be answered in the affirmative for someone seeking the office, then the Framers' intent is satisfied. I believe that's the case with Ted Cruz, who I have no doubt, the Framers would unanimously approve of.
“It makes perfect sense that such people’s first allegiance would be to our country, and to our people.”
It might seem to, but that doesn’t explain the millions of liberals that seek this nation’s demise including the very president seated. However, the founders knew there would be people that sought to take over the government, to enslave, and to abuse it. They even remarked a revolution once a generation might be necessary to secure freedom.