[Uncle Chip]

that statute clearly stated that the children of Citizens born overseas were entitled to NBC status.

Wasn't that changed by the Immigration Act of 1795 withdrawing NBC status?

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

Yes, the 1790 Act was repealed 5 years later with the natural born Citizen language removed. They did it for a reason.

[P-Marlowe]

Wasn't that changed by the Immigration Act of 1795 withdrawing NBC status?

Did someone amend the Constitution sometime between 1790 and 1795?

If the First Congress, you know, the one with all the people who were present at the Constitutional Convention, defined the Children of Citizens born abroad as Natural Born Citizens, then isn't it logical to conclude that the definition as used by that congress, as opposed to the Third Congress, is the definition that the drafters intended?

The Third Congress did not redefine Natural Born Citizen, they simply failed to redefine it in the later legislation.

Additionally, no Congress has the authority to change the definitions of the words in the Constitution. Therefore under the rules for statutory interpretation, the definition in the 1790 law is still in effect, because that was the definition given by those who drafted the Constitution in the first place.

Now are you willing to give Ted Cruz the benefit of the doubt on this issue? Or are you willing to let the Country sink because you have some doubt about this issue?