The same people will insist that Bobbie Jindal is not a NBC because his parents weren’t citizens at the time of his birth. Look at all the first group of presidents and all of them at some point swore allegiance to the crown.
the part after the first comma exempted themselves because they knew there could not be any natural born citizens for at least 35 years
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No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Do not even attempt to insert Cruz’s name or Jindal’s name or Rubio’s name into revered circle of our founding fathers. 229 years later, we deserve undivided allegiance.
READ the CONSTITUTION!
Article II, Section I, Clause 5
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President...........”
“at the time of the adoption of this Constitution” says it all.
Was Ted Cruz born in the 1700’s? NO! So your argument is invalid.
That is why the framers of the constitution inserted the exception "... or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, ...". At the time of the adoption of the Constitution, the oldest natural born citizens (since the Declaration of Independence) were eleven years old.
Clause 5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Constitution specifically made them a special case, granting them NBC status constitutionally or do you not know that. More likely you are just here trying to confuse the issue.