I’m not desperate to vilify Cruz but I am a bit desperate to see that the Founders and my Constitution are not perverted to/for the likes of Obama and his enablers. I admire Cruz very much but my admiration for the Constitution and It’s integrity are foremost. One belief I hold is that the Founders knew what they wanted said even though they might have said more. Having worked in government at the local executive level for a number of years I am very acquainted with codifying legislative laws. As such I don’t believe U.S.C. 1401 as code removes the distinction between plain ‘citizen’ and the more elaborate ‘natural born citizen’. Nothing against Cruz as a patriot but certainly much against Obama and his enablers including the 50+or- shills that voted for him.
“more elaborate ‘natural born citizen’. “
That’s the whole entire point: There is no elaborate ‘natural born citizen’.
A person is either citizen by birth or not. There is no ‘natural law’. Congress gets to state who is and who is not a citizen by birth as that subject is not specifically called out in the Constitution and the phrase “born in” also needed support, such as visiting mothers to foreign countries. I have yet to get an answer from anyone on that question. Congress also codifies what is free speech and how is it protected and not protected, although the Constitution claims speech is protected.
There are always someone that wants to twist words, mince words, and take words completely out of context and that is where our laws, hopefully, strengthen the words of the Constitution, as it does with 1401 that states exactly who is considered a natural born citizen and who must naturalize.
Nowhere in any law in any place is there another mention of the phrase ‘natural born citizen’. It simply does not exist. The founders meant they did not want an immigrant to be President. They never intended any elaborate rules behind their words.