There are no extraneous words in the Constitution. It is a precise legal document, carefully constructed. To claim otherwise is a slur on our Founders' literacy.
Words mean things. Each word carries its own meaning. That is the nature of language. The burden of proof is on you, who claims that a word has no meaning.Those of us who have thought this through have come to realize that the Constitution did not fail to unambiguously provide a singular definite meaning of the phrase natural born Citizen as so many have claimed. To the contrary, to know the exact meaning of those words only requires the Constitution itself and basic logic. One need not look elsewhere to lay this question to rest (although the weight of as much collaborating evidence as possible might help to squash down the inevitable flood of reactionary Alinsky tactics spewing from the minions of aka obama and his handlers).There are no extraneous words in the Constitution. It is a precise legal document, carefully constructed. To claim otherwise is a slur on our Founders' literacy.
The Constitution may not tell us explicitly the definition of natural born Citizen, but, by its very phraseology, it very explicitly tells us that natural born Citizen cannot simply be the same as "born citizen."
It is absurd beyond dispute to claim that the founders would have vainly or incompetently inserted a superfluous, meaningless word into one of the primary sections of such a painstakingly deliberate document, one of our country’s very own birth documents, our Constitution. If they had meant to allow the broader category of "born citizen" they would have succinctly stated such and not bothered to include the further restrictive qualification of being a natural born Citizen, which clearly must exclude certain types of mere "born citizens."
Who are by far the most common, everyday ordinary type of citizens that naturally populate and perpetuate our great country, the type of citizens who, by their very nature at birth, can only be U.S. citizens and nothing else? The answer is obvious – those born exclusively in country jurisdiction to existing U.S. citizens. These are the only type of citizens who are born with 100 percent, red-blooded exclusive allegiance to no other country but America. These are the natural born Citizens.
The phrase means exactly what it states, a Citizen at birth according to Natural Law, i.e., the law of nature.
What is important about the "law of nature"? There is a legal term Jura naturæ sunt immutabilia and it simply means that the laws of nature are unchangeable. So you see, congress cannot declare a person a natural born Citizen, because no one can change the definition - it's immutable.
The idea that Ted Cruz meets the nbC clause is ludicrous, for Ted Cruz is a U.S. citizen not by Natural Law, but by statutory law per the Immigration and Nationality Act.
By blood and by dirt – and the anti-American, criminal identity fraud known as obama simply does not qualify.