[OneWingedShark]

>> ... so I don’t think he does qualify with the NBC-clause.
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> Based on what law?

Given the Constitution IS the highest law, itself.

The strictest definition I’ve seen is “Born to two US Citizens in the US” — I’m not sure that the “in the US” is a good qualifier, as that would exclude, say, children of Ambassadors if their kids are born in that foreign country, and the Constitution’s residency requirement could be taken in support of that being an excessive/extraneous requirement, but [as stated] that’s the strictest definition I’ve seen. (The two US citizen parentage is, IMO, perfectly reasonable and seems in-line with the concerns of the Presidency falling to someone with foreign allegiances.)

Info Link: http://www.constitution.org/abus/pres_elig.htm

[DoodleDawg]

Given the Constitution IS the highest law, itself.

But the Constitution does not define what a natural born citizen is. The Constitution also identifies only two forms of citizenship; natural born and naturalized. If you are not one then obviously you are the other. Ted Cruz is not a naturalized citizen so therefore he is a natural born citizen.

[SoConPubbie]

The strictest definition I’ve seen is “Born to two US Citizens in the US”

OK, we're not looking for someone's opinion here, unless it's the Supreme Court. What we are looking for, what is germane here, is the legal definition of NBC and neither the US Constitution, the Supreme Court, or Congress has every defined or declared NBC to mean that.