The Constitution clearly states Natural Born Citizen. Cruz is Not a Natural Born Citizen because BOTH his parents were not citizens of the US when he was born. Trump IS NOT RESPONSIBLE for Ted Cruz’s birth. He has only pointed out that the constitution is at risk of ANOTHER infraction unless this is settled. Either we have a Constitution or we DON’T. It cannot be changed for political expediency. If it CAN, we do not have a Constitution. Take your pick.
What a natural born person is, would then be the key and that should not be written in stone. The English Common Law interpretation is that such things are determined by male bloodlines, yet that ignores the medical facts even though we now know they simply should not be. I mean what is her blood line, 'chopped liver'?
After all she does confer more than half of the child`s genetic inheritance, the X chromosome being larger than the Y, and this inheritance includes the all important mitochondrial DNA. Not to mention running the medical risk of carrying and birthing the child!
His mother was an American citizen in good standing. She was legally in another nation at that time, in pursuit of legal activities. Her mate was legally her husband. The father in question was in good legal standing. He was the legal husband of the mother of the child in question. He agreed with her wish to confer her nationality to their offspring. There was no ulterior motive behind that decision or their decision to bear an offspring.
Therefore a ruling would definitely be in order. I believe the above facts should allow a woman, under such established factors, to confer that aspect of her individual sovereignty unto her progeny. So in this case it very much does follow the maternal bloodline, and rightly so. Otherwise we do propagate the concept of second class status to American women, this is not so feminist clap-trap argument, but goes to the heart of individual sovereignty. Is it equal or are men more sovereign than women?