Cruz had American citizenship at birth. He was never naturalized. If he was not a natural born citizen, he would have had to have been naturalized years ago to be eligible to serve in the Senate. This didn't happen because his citizenship was intact from birth. Ted Cruz ia a natural born American.
“If he was not a natural born citizen”
False. He’s a natural born citizen of Canada, by virtue of having been born in Alberta.
Except that does not pass the intent of the Founding Fathers.
What if Cruz becomes POTUS and a dust up occurs between the US and Canada, trade deals, business deals or what ever. Could Cruz be viewed as having a bias, perhaps a soft spot for his birth place?
Maybe he has a loyalty maybe he doesn’t, but it could easily be argued there is a conflict of interest there, something we should strive to avoid as the Founder did.
A person born to two citizen parents in this Country is no doubt a NBC, any other variance leave a doubt of loyalty and possible conflict of interest.
“This didn’t happen because his citizenship was intact from birth. Ted Cruz ia a natural born American”
No he is not a natural born Citizen. He is a dual Citizen with born allegiances to two sovereignties.
Here is what the principal framer of the 14th Amendment Rep John Bingham stated when defining a natural born Citizen:
“Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))
Ted Cruz born within the allegiance of a foreign sovereignty called Canada to a foreign national father who owed allegiance to foreign sovereignty called Cuba is again, not a natural born Citizen. Ted Cruz is just a statutory Citizen only eligible for the Senate or House of Representatives.
Personally, I agree with you.
Citizen at birth = natural born citizen.
Both jus sanguinis and jus solis apply.
He was collectively naturalized by the citizenship act of 1934 which thereafter automatically naturalized any child born in a foreign country to an American woman.
Citizenship which comes from a Congressional law *IS* naturalization.