This stupid article has been written by someone who doesn’t know the difference between a citizen and a natural born citizen.Look up E. Vattel’s Law of Nations definition of Natural Born Citizen which the Constitutional Committee accepted on the advice of future Chief Justice John Jay.
Spreading stupid lies trying to make them accepted by people who do not know the facts is just another media practice leading this country downhill.
A Natural Born Citizen is one born of TWO Citizen parents, not just one. A citizen is by ONE parent being American.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 was ratified in 1791 and has never been changed nor modified.
What about the Naturalization Act of 1790? That law stipulates that the child of a woman who is a citizen is a “natural born citizen” if the father was ever a resident of the country, which Cruz’s father was prior to obtaining Canadian citizenship.
The truth of the matter is “natural born citizen” was never formally defined in the constitution itself, and it seems to me that The Naturalization Law of 1790 comes as close to settling this as anything.
Also, the constitution was ratified in 1788. This law came after ratification, a point I’m only making because Mollypitcher1 keeps saying 1791 (which is when the Bill of Rights was ratified)