If you have to be naturalized before you can become a citizen, then you are not a natural born citizen.
There is no third category: you're either naturalized or you're natural born.
Exactly right. You are a citizen at the moment of birth, i.e. “natural born”, or made as if natural, i.e. “naturalized.”
The law specifies certain conditions under which a person is a citizen at the moment of birth, i.e. “natural born.” There are multiple ways to be natural born if not physically born within the 50 United States.
Cruz’s mother’s status clearly falls under that law, as did McCain’s parentage (He was born in the Panama Canal Zone) Romney’s (He was born in Mexico) and even Barry Goldwater (He was born in the Arizona Territory.)
Donald, run on the issues, not on this BS. Trump is a fool for having raised the issue.
You are partially correct, there are indeed natural born and naturalized citizens. But there is a third category: Native born citizens who are people who are born in this country of non-citizen parent(s.) This should be limited to people who are here legally, in the process of obtaining citizenship, and not born to parents here illegally (anchor babies.) I hope that in the future we can bring about an end to anchor baby citizenship. According to the constitution, ARticle II, Section 1, Clause 5, neither native born nor naturalized citizens are eligible to be President, only natural born citizens are.
"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 ..."