Is this like a natural partial birth abortion?
WaPo. Nuff said.
It’s rather simple: naturalized means not natural born. Not being natural born requires that you be naturalized.
What it means is that Congress, which has the power to determine naturalization laws, can pass citizenship to whoever they want or however they want. When this is done, it is "naturalization," even if you are born into it. According to the Law of Nations, as used by the Founding fathers, an NBC must be born to two citizen parents and on American soil. According to English common law, an individual can receive natural born status while being outside the country, but this passes from the Father.
Ted Cruz is thus invalidated by both legal standards in use by the founding fathers at the time the constitution was written.
George Washington, Chair of the Constitutional Committee, received a letter from John Jay (who became the First Chief justice of the Supreme Court) suggesting the wording “Natural Born Citizen” should be used. He referred to E. Vattel’s published and well known “Law of Nations” which restricted to Natural Born Citizen those citizens be born of TWO Parents Citizens and born on the soil. The wording was adopted in the final draft of the constitution. The Framers did not want a president to be a person of divided loyalties which might be the case with someone having one parent citizen and one parent alien.