[DiogenesLamp]

Thank you for that. It was never quite clear during the Obama birth certificate hunt whether there were two types of citzenship, natural born and naturalized, or if there was a third type of citizenship at birth which wasn't natual born for some reason. Since the exact term "natural born" only applied to the requiremnents for president and vice president I had seen no statute which clearly defined it. That 1790 law comes as close as I have seen and makes it pretty clear that natural born and citizen at birth are the same and there are only two types of citizenship.

Do not celebrate yet. That 1790 statute which the author foolishly included specifically says that if your father is a foreigner, you can't have citizenship at all.

It is the height of idiocy to quote *THAT* particular statute in an effort to support Ted Cruz.

[Nero Germanicus]

What the Act actually said was that if your father had never been RESIDENT in the U.S., a child born beyond the sea could not be considered as a natural born citizen.

Here ‘s the exact wording of the relevant passage: “And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens: Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States: Provided also, that no person heretofore proscribed by any States, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid, except by an Act of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed.”
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ekdhist/H105-documents-web/week08/naturalization1790.html