You mean and then Ted tried to come home to his family in America? He would have to naturalize, but there’s an argument that abandoning an American baby outside America is depriving that baby of his sovereign rights, especially of his American relatives were trying to bring him back.
At any rate, with there being no precedent with zero’s eligibility, doubtful the left would try to challenge Cruz’. Pretty sure Ted’s looked around the issue.
No, I meant my example as stands.
Since you brought it up that way, in the example I offer, the baby Ted lives but is aborted from his family, instead of from his mother's womb as in your way of explaining it.
Baby mom then leaves baby Ted there and heads back home, instead of aborting him and leaving fetus Ted there and heading back home.
How do you understand young baby Ted's "natural born citizenship" then?
Is he Canadian by birth?
Cuban by paternal inheritance, similar to why people take their father's last name rather than mom's?
Or American by maternal inheritance?
I wonder what the founding fathers had in mind here for this individual, since the Presidential eligibility is the only position so defined.
What if, at some point before he jumped into the melting pot, his dad returned to his native country Cuba and decided his kid should be raised as a Cuban in his father's homeland?
Could he then go Elián González style and have young Ted returned to him in Cuba at gunpoint?
Be ready for those sorts of questions should you choose to explain his Canadian birth by whether or not baby mom aborted an American baby or a Canadian baby.
Otherwise, I think it might backfire on you.