[AFret.]

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.

The only exception is being born outside CONUS to “Two citizen parents”..Cruz had one...so did Buckwheat.

[Godebert]

You have been misinformed.

Note the reference to Natural Law in the first sentence of our Declaration of Independence.

It is crystal clear that the Founding Fathers used the Natural Law definition of 'natural born Citizen' when they wrote Article II. By invoking "The Laws of Nature and Nature's God" the 56 signers of the Declaration incorporated a legal standard of freedom into the forms of government that would follow.

President John Quincy Adams, writing in 1839, looked back at the founding period and recognized the true meaning of the Declaration's reliance on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." He observed that the American people's "charter was the Declaration of Independence. Their rights, the natural rights of mankind. Their government, such as should be instituted by the people, under the solemn mutual pledges of perpetual union, founded on the self-evident truth's proclaimed in the Declaration."

The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

MINOR V. HAPPERSETT IS BINDING PRECEDENT AS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION OF A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

The Harvard Law Review Article Taken Apart Piece by Piece and Utterly Destroyed

Citizenship Terms Used in the U.S. Constitution - The 5 Terms Defined & Some Legal Reference to Same

"The citizenship of no man could be previous to the declaration of independence, and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776."....David Ramsay, 1789.

A Dissertation on Manner of Acquiring Character & Privileges of Citizen of U.S.-by David Ramsay-1789

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 20 - Use of The Law of Nations by the Constitutional Convention

[absalom01]

I have to hand it to Hillary. The birther trope began within her campaign against Obama, and with at least one eye open as a tool to use against an eventual McCain campaign.

It was brilliant. She somehow knew that the idea, though utterly crazy-pants, would lead to at least some infighting on the right at some point, and man, was she ever right.

William F. Buckley managed to banish the conspiracy theorists to the fever swamps of crazydom, but they’ve come back. Not in droves, but enough to afflict the one constitutional conservative in the race.

Depressing.

[The All Knowing All Seeing Oz]

Sorry, but law only requires one, with certain prior residency requirements within CONUS for that one parent.