You wrote: “If they are born on a base or in an embassy, then they are on American soil. If they are born out in town then they are sadly not on American soil.”
I will disagree with you here, based upon the parents being in a foreign country under orders from the US government, rather than their own decision to visit there. But also with the 1795 law explained in post #45 by tumblindice
Citing the two statutes dated 1790 and 1795 offered to prove that Cruz is a NBC,
the 1795 act says that the following are citizens (not NBC):
“the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States”
I’m not sure if Cruz’s mother renounced her American citizenship (I read somewhere here that her records are sealed?), but his pappy was Cubano.
Notice the 1795 act says “citizens” (plural).
A literal reading of the act would mean that if Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship (not long after filing to run for prez) and was not an American citizen, i.e. was never naturalized, well, then as well as being an undocumented immigrant, he’s squatting in his current position as a US senator:
ARTICLE I, SECTION 3, CLAUSE 3
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
My brother was born in an Army hospital in Munich, W. Germany. My grandfather, a WWI vet, asked my mother to have him naturalized when he was just a little shaver in OKC.
To alleviate his concern that the Germans might start up yet another world war and snatch him up as a natural born goose-stepper, she did take him to OKC and have him naturalized.
I agree with you that little bro’ is a “natural born citizen” because he was born in an Army hospital in a place to which my father was ordered to serve.
Both my parents were `red-dirt Okie’-born, Pop was lifer Army.
This issue is certainly arguable, but it’s not the issue here, except insofar as it affects parentage and Article 2, Section 1, clause 5.