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Here's the next paragraph from the "Minor v. Happersett" ruling:

Under the power to adopt a uniform system of naturalization Congress, as early as 1790, provided "that any alien, being a free white person," might be admitted as a citizen of the United States, and that the children of such persons so naturalized, dwelling within the United States, being under twenty-one years of age at the time of such naturalization, should also be considered citizens of the United States, and that the children of citizens of the United States that might be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, should be considered as natural-born citizens. [n8] These provisions thus enacted have, in substance, been retained in all the naturalization laws adopted since. In 1855, however, the last provision was somewhat extended, and all persons theretofore born or thereafter to be born out of the limits of the jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were, or should be at the time of their birth, citizens of the United States, were declared to be citizens also. [n9]

So, the Supreme Court at that time also stated there was no need to be on any land that was part of the United States, and in effect, implied that it only took one parent, the father, being a US Citizen at birth to convey the status of "Natural Born" to this new US Citizen.

Can there be any doubt that if Ted Cruz' "Natural Born" citizenship were brought before the US Supreme Court and given today's norms concerning gender, that they would without hesitation rule that even though it was not his Father that was the US Citizen at the time of his birth that his mother was a US Citizen at the time of his birth and he is therefore considered a "Natural Born" citizen and COMPLETELY ELIGIBLE to be POTUS?

Well done. Since this nation’s founding, the US has had tens of millions of its citizens stationed overseas, either in the military or civilian positions in the government. To think that the Framers wanted to exclude any child born to these citizens, merely because their parents were serving the nation overseas, from ever being eligible to be president, is just plain dumb.

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So, the Supreme Court at that time also stated there was no need to be on any land that was part of the United States, and in effect, implied that it only took one parent, the father, being a US Citizen at birth to convey the status of "Natural Born" to this new US Citizen.

Nope -- it doesn't say that because if the father was a citizen then so was the mother. It was citizenship by marriage for the wife.

Furthermore the 1790 Act was replaced by the 1795 Act. The exemption re natural born citizenship was only for the "period of the adoption of the Constitution" per Article II which ended with the 1795 Act.

were declared to be citizens also.

"citizens" -- not "natural born citizens".