Well I’m sure you know as well as I that the Constitution does not lay out a definition of natural born citizen. It only makes the statement that the President must be a natural born citizen while all other offices only require a citizen. The 14th Amendment states all born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. The Constitution also requires Congress defend and punish offenses against the Law of Nations.
The Law of Nations states
“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.
Then there are Supreme Court cases ruling on natural born citizens, one of which is Minor v. Happersett in 1875. It states The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.
I do not see where Ted Cruz fits here at all.
“The Law of Nations” was written in French, and did not mention Natural Born Citizens at all. That erroneous translation was not made until 10 years AFTER the US Constitution was written.
I say erroneous, because the word they translated NBC is “indigenes” - which is an English as well as a French word. While we rarely use “indigene” any more, we do use “indigenous” all the time - to refer to the natives or original inhabitants of a land, such as aborigines or the natives of America...who are not white!