[JayGalt]

Posting it in big type and creating a false equivalency between citizen at birth and natural born citizen is just duplicitous at this point.

So many posters have provided the documentation that born a citizen is not what was meant by the founders or what has been upheld by courts as sufficient to be considered a natural born citizen, eligible for President/VP.

Do I want Cruz disqualified in a word NO! Do I want us to follow the Constitution and the system of Government laid out by our Founders YES! I would like the issue examined honestly and the parties to agree on a standard for the candidates they will support in future. Cruz cannot be a natural born citizen by the original standards. I don’t know what this will mean for this election but if the bastardization of our Constitutional protections continue America will no longer be a republic, one Nation indivisible with liberty & Justice for all, but will instead resemble the Banana Republic of the Liberal’s dreams.

[Yosemitest]

"Cruz cannot be a natural born citizen by the original standards."

WRONG ! TED CRUZ IS A "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN" by the original standards !

The Naturalization Act of 1790, let's read it , too ( written by our ORIGINAL FOUNDING FATHERS) !

United States Congress, "An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" (March 26, 1790).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,

That any Alien being a free white person,
who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years,
may be admitted to become a citizen thereof on application to any common law Court of record in any one of the States
wherein he shall have resided for the term of one year at least,
and making proof to the satisfaction of such Court  that
he is a person of good character,
and taking the oath or affirmation prescribed by law
to support the Constitution of the United States,
which Oath or Affirmation such Court shall administer,
and the Clerk of such Court shall record such Application, and the proceedings thereon;
and thereupon such person shall be considered as a Citizen of the United States. 


And the children of such person so naturalized,
dwelling within the United States,
being under the age of twenty one years at the time of such naturalization,
shall also be considered as citizens of the United States. 

And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States,
shall be considered as natural born Citizens: 
Provided, that
the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States: 
Provided also, that
no person heretofore proscribed by any States, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid,
except by an Act of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed.