[SoConPubbie]

Wikipedia has Ted Cruz’s father becoming a naturalized citizen as late as 2005. Yes I know wikipedia can be written by anyone, but if this is true then forget it - Cruz is not eligible. End of argument. Believe me I wish to hell he was, but this is the same situation as BHO only Cruz admits he was born in Canada.

Please show the relevant passage from the US Constitution, the relevant US Supreme Court ruling, or the relevant US Law passed by Congress and signed by a US President that defines Natural Born, in terms of constitutionality, requiring both parents of a child to be a US Citizen at birth.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Article Two, Section 1 of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as President of the United States:

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

OK, I see what you are saying. It does not define natural born.

By the way- Isn’t everyone “natural born”?? In the history of man has anyone ever been unnaturally born? Maybe test tube babies?

[Kenny Bunk]

This whole topic has given me a bad case of Blogger's Itch.

Both of you learned posters have equally cogent, if not equally valid arguments. However, I am willing to wager that neither of you is about to cash a SCOTUS paycheck.

I trust that within my rather limited lifetime, the SCOTUS will get off its cowardly black-robed ass and accept one of the many solid appeals that has wended its torturous way to them. They may be waiting until after the presernt recumbent and his pal Reggie leave the White House? By which time Raoul Castro will be on the Supreme Court?

Questions of Constitutionality are in their bailiwick.