Schwarzenegger 2020: Equal Opportunity to Govern

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Icelander

My first thought was Ted Cruz, but I'm open to other ideas.

No amendment is needed for Ted Cruz. The usual assumption is that natural-born citizen means 'born a citizen', and he was (his mother was a US citizen). Various people with axes to grind choose to argue that this isn't sufficient, but it's vanishingly unlikely that a court (or at least, a higher level court) would agree.

Incidentally, the only US statute to define 'natural-born citizen' was the Naturalization Act of 1790, which in fact specifically would have classed him as natural-born.