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In reply to the discussion: Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president. [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)The OP feels that even in the limit case of the child born in Toronto due to plane difficulties, the child is NOT a natural born citizen. Even that limit case!
Any case with even slightly more complexity (of parentage, residency, etc.) is beside the point for the OP a fortiori, since she believes even our Toronto baby fails the test for natural born. Needless to say, her position is ridiculous relative to both the Constitution and current (long-standing, nearly 60 year-old) statute. Even if our goal was to divine the intentions of the framers, one would have to believe them to be quite stupid if they ruled out potential leaders due to trivial accidents of birth like the one described.
In the end, it doesn't matter, though, since no judge is going to declare to the millions of natural born Americans born abroad in the last 60 years that they are not natural born after all, but went through a non-existent automatic "naturalization process" during the course of being born.
It is the completely inconsequential nature of the professor and the OP's speculations that make them little more than a parlor game.