Bringing in a foreign born king to satisfy a political and religious requirement, King William of Orange because he was Protestant and married to the daughter of Charles II, and the German Hanoverian dynasty (George III anyone?) were recent history for the founders. And some people were all for establishing an American constitutional hereditary monarchy as the most successful model of government existing at that time. Later in the 19th century Mexico had to overthrow just such a transplanted monarch, Maximillian of Austria. So it was not a ridiculous notion.
I agree. It was not a ridiculous notion. There was a very straightforward goal, easily achieved. But people today are trying to twist a simple thing into a profound legal and constitutional puzzle. That’s what I was objecting to. Ted Cruz’s mother was born in Delaware. Ted was an American from birth, with dual nationality in Canada because his dad was working there at the time. Ted qualifies.