And WHAT DOES THAT have to do with this debate ?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING !
So there is the law for the time Ted Cruz was born,
AND HOW
Ted Cruz's PARENTS fulfilled ALL those requirements of the law that time,
for Ted Cruz to be a "Natural Born Citizen".
Ted Cruz did NOT NEED a Court and a Judge to "Nationalize" him.
“Senator Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.
... The U.S. Constitution allows only a “natural born” American citizen to serve as president.
Most legal scholars who have studied the question agree that includes an American born overseas to an American parent, such as Cruz.
And WHAT DOES THAT have to do with this debate ? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ! It has everything to do with it. It is the law of the land now and was then. Cruz was born of one US citizen parent in Canada, which also confers birthright citizenship automatically on Cruz. In essence, Cruz had dual nationality at the time. He only recently, in writing, renounced any claim to Canadian citizenship claiming he did not know he could opt for Canadian citizenship. He could have applied for a Canadian passport in much the same way that Obama could have applied for a Kenyan/British passport since his father was a citizen of Kenya.
The issue I raise is that if you use the criterion that a NBC under the Constitution means any US citizen who does not require naturalization to become a citizen, then this opens the door for the US born children of illegal aliens, green card holders, and tourists. All such children are US citizens at birth.