Humor this senior citizen whose memory is not what it once was. I don’t recall there being any dispute that Obama’s mother was a US citizen. If that is so, why would it have made any difference if he had in fact been born in Kenya. Wouldn’t his mother’s citizenship have conferred US citizenship on him under the 1790 act, just as Cruz’s mother’s citizenship makes the fact of his Canadian birth irrelevant? Or am I missing something here?
Because the laws AS WRITTEN at the time of his birth did not allow his mother to pass citizenship to him. The required residency period was not met (that requirement was considerably longer than current law). Thus Obama absolutely HAD to be born on US soil in order to be eligible for the Presidency.