‘Read the first 9 words of it a few times: All persons born or naturalized in the United States ...’ — RC one
After wading through it today, I don’t see the 14th amendment as adding more rights beyond original intent other than what was enumerated, such as freedom from slavery and increasing federal authority to defend peoples’ freedoms.
So ...
This remains my gold standard for original intent regarding natural born status [by greetings puny humans]
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3383942/posts?page=122#122
Cruz is not eligible ... there are only two definitions for ‘natural born citizen’ available during the time the founders wrote.
The first from the law of nations, which requires the child to be born to 2 citizen parents and on American land. The second under British Common Law, as seen in Blackstone’s commentaries, which, though it removes the requirement of being born in the US, transmits the ‘natural born’ status through the father, not the mother.
Hence why a couple of the liberal scholars keep saying ‘under an Originalist view, Cruz would not be eligible,’ because that’s exactly true. A renowned originalist constitutional scholar (frequently cited by the supreme court) even said the same thing: ‘Cruz is not eligible.’
— Greetings_Puny_Humans