VA, I don’t know what the laws of any foreign country is regarding expatriated citizens’ children, but they are irrelevant re the fact that Cruz’ mom was American. Ted was bequeathed citizenship UNLESS his mom formally renounced her American citizenship.
alstewartfan: “Ted was bequeathed citizenship UNLESS his mom formally renounced her American citizenship.”
It isn’t as simple as you state. That is not the ONLY condition for Cruz’s US citizenship. His mother had to register Cruz in the US after his birth. He actually had to reside in the US for a particular amount of time prior to granting citizenship. If Cruz had been born to an American mother and Cuban father as he was in Canada and he never resided in the US until after his 18th birthday, he would not even be a US citizen! So you see that having a single parent citizen in a foreign birth was insufficient by itself to acquire US citizenship.
And an interesting point you should know is that the citizenship laws through the past have changed the qualifications for aliens born abroad to attain citizenship. And NONE of these were identified as UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
Do you think the definition of NBC has changed since the Constitution was written? If so, in what way(s)?