I don't have a contrary agenda, so I guess it's easier for me to understand what was written, as it was written and the reasoning why. Moreover, the more I study it, the more convinced I am.
These last few decades, especially the last one, have shown me that The Republic is gone, the Constitution is just a piece of paper and that we are under new management, but are comfortable not acknowledging that fact now, but soon we will have to.
Doing a quick inventory of what makes a sovereign nation, I see that we have lost our borders, can't control our elections, have lost our currency and are watching our treasure being looted. Our media, most of the government and half of the "opposition" party are under the control of one political party and they have let absolute power do what absolute power does best, all sung in the key of the Chicago way.
So, hey, y'all just do whatever you want to. Nothing matters and what it if did? Our forefathers might have won the war and saved the world, but we've lost the country.
One of these days someone when they want to confuse an issue or have a purpose will argue that phrases such as ‘mother earth’, ‘father time’, etc. have no meaning as to gender. Such it has been with an explicit part of the Constitution which specifys in one place only ‘natural born citizen’. As for me in my take of the Constitution this is a unique and specific part of the Constitution. As much as I admire Cruz for his politics to date I will not vote to take one nibble away from the historical background.