Law professors presumably know the law. Perhaps better than some guy on an internet forum. Cruz is not a US NBC, regardless is how badly Canada Ted wants to be president. He was a Canadian NBC though. Maybe he should run for president of Canada.
“Law professors presumably know the law. Perhaps better than some guy on an internet forum.”
That is the logical fallacy of appeal to authority. Cruz himself is a Constitutional scholar as well. He has also clerked for the Supreme Court and argued cases there. We do not need an ivory tower professor to divine for us the intent of the founders. We can read them for ourselves.
Here is the law I cited:
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.
Do you see the part about natural born citizens being born abroad? The legal theory of your professor is wrong, because it is clear that the founders did NOT base natural born citizenship on British common law or the legal theory of jus soli.
We have lots of writings of the founders. Letters. Speeches. Laws. Not one iota was written dissenting from the above law. Why is that?
Allowing other people to do our thinking for us, rather than engaging in the discourse and understanding the reasons for our way of life, has brought us to the sad state of affairs we find ourselves in today.