A “natural born citizen” is a citizen “by nature” not by statute. So if your argument about natural born citizenship makes reference to a statute, that’s a clue that you’re on the wrong track.
“A ‘natural born citizen’ is a citizen ‘by nature’ not by statute.”
How exactly does “nature” identify a “natural born citizen”? Are you a natural born citizen? Do you have a “natural born citizen” stamp on your buttocks or something? I was unaware that nature did this.
Your definition does not jive with what the founders wrote. The very first statute on the matter (just 18 months after the ratification of the Constitution) clearly designated select individuals as being “natural born citizens” who were born abroad.
Either you are wrong or the founders. If I am wrong, I will happily be wrong along with the founders. And you can be right all you want for whatever it is worth.
But Cruz can still be president.