It’s too bad the framers did not take an extra paragraph in the Constitution to explain “Natural born citizen”. They had no idea how little future Americans would know, I guess.
The Framers didn't define any of the terms they used in the Constitution. They used language and terms that were well understood by the people of the day, and would have pointed anyone who had trouble understanding it in the direction of a common dictionary.
What would have been genius at the time (as if the Constitution doesn't already qualify for that description) would have been the inclusion of some sort of official addendum, wherein they could have set forth the underlying logic and reasoning for every section of that document.
Such an attachment would have saved the country centuries of argument, court battles, and deviations from the Constitution's precise intent.
They didn’t “explain” it because by its very definition it comes from God, not man. To define it would be the government usurping the powers of God.
“It’s too bad the framers did not take an extra paragraph in the Constitution to explain “Natural born citizen”.”
They couldn’t foresee that there would be people retarded enough not to know what the word “natural” meant and would try to distort it to mean things never intended. Cruz is a natural born citizen by all definitions of law.
If a person is a citizen by birth they are a natural born citizen. Instead of that definition, we get all kinds of creepy conspiracy theorists types thinking they are great legal minds and want to claim all kinds of crap the founding fathers did not intend. Hells Bells, if they meant a person would only be considered natural born if any only if two parents were married, present in the US all their lives, with multiple generations of previous citizenships, and the birth was in a US hospital, and, and, and, they would have said so.
Our LAWS say a person has citizenship at birth under certain conditions and Cruz meets those conditions. Any idiot that cannot understand that is an idiot that wants to re-write law. Hopefully they never serve on a jury as they are too stupid to understand plain English.
These same idiots that claim anyone born in another country must be a citizen of that country and only of that country are therefore supporting anchor babies born here in the US and that isn’t even law. The child must meet certain criteria and is not a natural born citizen because the child is not granted US citizenship automatically because they are born here.
These idiots claim if a pregnant woman is visiting another country, even for a day, and goes into labor the child loses their US citizenship. Who are they to say pregnant women must stay in country? Who are they say a child loses it citizenship because mom stepped into another country? A baby that has had 8 months and 30 days of pregnancy in the US has its citizenship destroyed by being a single day in another country when mom gives birth? Mom visits Niagara Falls, goes into labor, nearest hospital is in Canada, oops, baby is without a country because these pinheads think the baby is not a US citizen and Canada does not recognize her as legal to give birth to a Canadian. How retarded is that?
A US citizen working in another country is still a US citizen, and that other country may consider any child she has a US citizen and not recognize the birth or give the child citizenship. What then? A baby without a country, because these pinheads claim the child is not a US citizen either, so the child is without a country. Stupid. Absolutely stupid.
Not a single one of these idiots knows how to read the law. It is written in English and they don’t have the basic civics skills to find it and read it: Title 8 Section 1401. Yet, they couldn’t find it any more than they can find their ass with both hands. That section defines who is and who is not a US citizen at birth, a natural born citizen, yet, they argue as though they know everything. Dunces. Put a pointy hat on them and stand them in the corner.