(February 7, 2016 at 3:17 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Initially, I don't have a problem with the clause requiring a president to be a natural-born citizen. I don't personally know exactly what legally defines "natural born" but my understanding was that you are born to an American citizen either in the US, on "US soil", or outside the US and are then legally "naturalized" and by that definition both Obama and Cruzwould count, for me, as "natural born citizens."
As stated by Minimalist, there isn't really a legal definition of "natural born", however most scholars seem to agree that people born to at least one American citizen parent qualify, as do people born within U.S. soil, regardless of their parents' citizenship. However, people born outside of the U.S. to non-US citizen parents and then are legally "naturalized" do not qualify.
