[Yosemitest]

"... based solely on whether they seem to support your positions.
... I think that there is considerable support
that the Founders and many judges established the requirement
for a President/Vice president to be a natural born citizen
requires him/her to be born of two American citizens"

WRONG, mister OVER INFLATED EGO !
Take it up with the Supreme Courty of the United States and our Founding Fathers.
ORIGINAL SOURCES show that, not only I, but THEY TOO, DISPUTE YOU !

In 1798, the law on naturalization was changed again.
The Federalists feared that many new immigrants favored their political foes, the Democratic-Republicans.
The Federalists, therefore, wanted to reduce the political influence of immigrants.
To do so, the Federalists, who controlled Congress, passed a law
that required immigrants to wait fourteen years before becoming naturalized citizens and thereby gaining the right to vote.
The 1798 act also barred naturalization for citizens of countries at war with the United States.
At the time, the United States was engaged in an unofficial, undeclared naval war with France.
The French government thought the United States had taken the side of Britain in the ongoing conflict between Britain and France.
A related law passed in 1798, the Alien Enemy Act, gave the president the power during a time of war to arrest or deport any alien thought to be a danger to the government.

After Jefferson became president (in 1801), the 1798 naturalization law was repealed, or overturned (in 1802).
The basic provisions of the original 1790 law WERE RESTORED except for the period of residency before naturalization.
The residency requirement, that is, the amount of time the immigrant had to reside, or live, in the United States, was put back to five years, as it had been in 1795.

The 1802 law remained the basic naturalization act until 1906, with two notable exceptions.
In 1855, the wives of American citizens were automatically granted citizenship.
In 1870, people of African descent could become naturalized citizens, in line with constitutional amendments passed after the American Civil War (1861-65)
that banned slavery and gave African American men the right to vote.
Other laws were passed to limit the number of people (if any) allowed to enter the United States from different countries,
especially Asian countries, but these laws did not affect limits on naturalization.

Within a decade of adopting the Constitution, immigration, and naturalization in particular, had become hot political issues.
They have remained political issues for more than two centuries.

Did you know ...

Naturalization laws relate to the process of immigrants becoming a citizen.
Other laws have provided for losing citizenship -
- by getting married!
In 1907, Congress passed a law that said a woman born in the United States (and therefore a citizen) would lose her citizenship
if she married an alien (who was therefore not a citizen).
In 1922, two years after women won the right to vote,
this provision was repealed and a woman's citizenship status was separated from her husband's.

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[JayGalt]

But yet again you don’t get it. The post you just sent is about citizenship. We are in complete agreement about citizenship. While not knowing all the facts it appears very unlikely that Cruz’s mother renounced her citizenship before his birth and he is, by the Laws and practice of America, an American citizen through his Mother at birth, although in the case of a foreign birth documentation needs to be provided to confirm the facts of the case.

What you are glossing over is the salient point that to become President or Vice President of the United States requires a special form of citizenship, natural born citizenship which has been defined and described as a child born to two American parents on American soil, although there are exceptions as to place of birth, as in the case of diplomats or people serving America overseas. America ignored that definition and constitutional requirement at it’s peril with Obama.

The media shaming and the court stonewalling of people that wanted to have the issue addressed starting in 2007 resulted in a President with foreign allegiances holding sway over the country for 8 years. The damage at home and abroad is staggering. We cannot be cavalier about the need for our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates to have two citizen parents. It is a safeguard against putting in power someone with a divided allegiance which was addressed by our Founders and can be seen in their writings and correspondence and in the writers such as Vatel that they drew from in writing our Constitution. No matter how able a man Cruz is another incursion upon the Constitution will endanger America for the future.