The date of Cruz’s father’s naturalization has absolutely no impact on the law. He falls under 301(a)(7) which recognizes the at birth citizenship of a baby born overseas to parents, one of whom is a US citizen.
Thank you....
that makes me an American citizen at birth...
My great grandmother was born overseas of 1 US citizen parent so she was an American citzen at birth...
her daughter my grandmother was born overseas of 1 US citizen parent, her mother, so she also was an American citizen at birth...
My dad was born overseas of 1 US citIzen parent, his mother, so he too was an American citzen...
I was born overseas of i US citzen parent, my father, so I was an American citzen at birth...
I did get naturalized but that was just for form etc...
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Citizenship at birth is not natural born citizenship. Wong Kim Ark was a citizen at birth, and not a natural born citizen. 169 U.S. 649, 1898. Nowhere in the 14th Amendment, upon which the Wong Kim decision was based, is the term ‘natural born citizen’ used, which was deliberate because, as its author John Bingham noted. “I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen….”
Obama, McCain, Rubio, Cruz, Jindal, Haley, and every anchor baby were naturalized at birth. They were all made citizens based upon Article 1 Section 8 under which 301 falls, a collection of rules by Congress constituting an Uniform Rule for Naturalizatio. The one office that required a natural born citizen was the presidency. The vice president was added later.
If we don't agree with the framers, we can amend Article II Section 1. But twenty six attempts failed to get a super-majority in Congress and three Quarters of the States to agree. I would have followed Vattel and made the children of military citizens, born 'beyond the seas' natural born. But when Obama and McCaskill took the first step, in February 2008, the "Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act", SB 2678, and it failed. it is clear that an amendment is no certainty. Seven Congressmen tried to amend Article II Section 1 since 2001, John Conyers (twice), Menendez and Frank, Nickles, Hatch and Rohrabacher (twice), all failed.
No amendment or Supreme Court has ever modified the above definition.