When I was a schoolboy the term natural born was used often, we might tell a schoolmate that he was a “natural born” horseshoe pitcher which meant that he could not have been otherwise, he was born to pitch horseshoes. That is the way the term was explained to me in school, a “natural born” citizen was one whose citizenship could not be challenged in any way, he was the child of two parents who were American citizens at the time of his birth and he was born on American soil and had no claim to citizenship in any other country. Nowadays the term is never heard except in reference to the eligibility to be POTUS and some people seem to have no idea whatsoever of its original meaning and some even seem to think that congress can legislate whether someone is a natural born citizen. Anyone who is a citizen due to falling under a piece of legislation CANNOT be a natural born citizen because congress only has the power to legislate concerning NATURALIZATION, not natural born citizenship. It would appear that the reason the constitution does not define the term natural born is that it would have been considered at the time to be as absurd as defining what a human being is.
Convenient but wrong. Sounds more like something that came to mind after the fact. The only reason this issue is even under discussion is because we have people of questionable heritage that brought it forward.
McCain knew he was not eligible or he would have never called for a Sense of the Senate Resolution, proclaiming him to be an NBC. That resolution was as useless as my signature on a million dollar check. You did know that they tried to attach Barak's name to that same resolution right? Before 2008 if you asked a man on the street what NBC meant, he most likely would have told you born in USA of two Citizens.
I try to avoid this issue entirely because Cruz is held in high regard and deemed to be NBC on this forum. I don't happen to agree but it doesn't really matter our opinion is irrelevant, the decision will be or has beenmade by our betters.