[Joachim]

So lets take that quote and apply it by looking at the Naturalization Act of 1790. In the first acts of Congress, the requirement for birth on US soil was REMOVED by statute.

So Congress removed a constitutional-level requirement by statute?

[EternalVigilance]

Throughout virtually all of our existence as a constitutional republic individuals with circumstances like Ted Cruz were, by statute, NOT accorded citizenship, much less considered natural born citizens.

He definitely would not have received U.S. citizenship prior to 1934, because until Congress changed the statute, in response to the feminist agitations of Eleanor Roosevelt, citizenship could only be derived via the father.

The 1952 immigration and naturalization act, the act under which Ted Cruz was born in 1970, placed conditions on the individual to fulfill certain residency requirements as a young adult in order to keep their citizenship. I repeat, their citizenship was CONDITIONAL upon the meeting of all of the requirements of the statute.

Ted Cruz was made a citizen of the United States by virtue of an act of Congress, by statute. Which means he was not natural born, an event dictated by nature, not Congress.

You can be a naturalized - ie made like a citizen who is a citizen by nature - or you can be natural born. You cannot be both. The two things are mutually exclusive.

Ted Cruz was naturalized, and therefore is not constitutionally eligible for the office of President of the United States.

[taxcontrol]

There was no constitutional requirement for jus soli UNTIL the ratification of the 14th amendment. The Naturalization act of 1790 was prior to the passage of the 14th.