“If you are a U.S. citizen at birth, you are a U.S. citizen — regardless of how many other nationalities and citizenships you might be eligible for.”
You are correct about being a “U.S. citizen at birth” BUT, being a U.S. citizen at birth does not mean that you are Article II eligible to the presidency. For that, you have to ALSO meet the requirements of “natural born Citizen”. Born in the country by two citizen parents.
I CAN’T BELIEVE that anyone can believe that someone BORN in a foreign country, is eligible to be president. This just shows the IGNORANCE of some otherwise intelligent people. The Constitution is clear (having removed “citizen” and replaced it with “natural born Citizen”). The framers were CLEAR about the presidency “devolving to a foreigner”.
Get REAL, Cruz is NOT eligible, there is no doubt on this.
I agree.. He is no more eligible than the current poser.
Was John McCain born in the US? If he had won enough electoral votes would he have become President?
Current citizenship law covers Senator Cruz’ birth circumstance:
“The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years:”—8 U.S.C. § 1401
The original thinking of the Founding Fathers on this issue was codified in the Naturalization Act of 1790: “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”.
Source, please.
That particular interpretation has never been established in any court of law. The term remains "ambiguous".
In your mind, perhaps.
But not in law.