[Cboldt]

-- What I think is not important of the Form 240. --

You asked when it was first "required" or similar, and I had an answer for that. However, the answer was prefaced with a note that the form isn't and wasn't "required" in order for citizenship to attach.

I don't know why you were asking when it was first applicable, or required, or whatever, but you seemed insistent on getting an answer to that question, and now you have your answer, sometime in 1934.

-- It's simply a distraction from the FACT that TED CRUZ meets ALL requirements to be President. --

Well, it's a distraction that you appeared to be fixated on, at least as to the date the form first came into play.

He meets the requirements to be a citizen, no doubt. Those requirements were satisfied by the circumstances of his birth, no doubt.

Your position is that Congress may, by law, make rules that establish natural born citizenship. That is, that making rules that establish natural born citizenship are a form of rule of naturalization.

That's the prevailing view.

Just as the prevailing view is that the constitution grants a right to homosexual marriage and to an abortion.

[Yosemitest]

"... the answer was prefaced with a note that
the form isn't and wasn't "required" in order for citizenship to attach.

... He meets the requirements to be a citizen, no doubt.
Those requirements were satisfied by the circumstances of his birth, no doubt."

Thanks.
That's WHY I was asking.

"Your position is that
Congress may, by law, make rules that establish natural born citizenship.
That is, that making rules that establish natural born citizenship, are a form of rule of naturalization."

The whole point is in the "Naturalization", or the laws defining it.
What is the root word of "Naturalization" ?

"Naturalize" !

Not only could the Founding Father define "natural born citizen", BUT ... THE FOUNDING FATHERS DID DEFINE IT !
And you ARE refusing the definition of "natural born citizen" CLEARLY DEFINED by our FOUNDING FATHERS !

Ted Cruz's PARENTS fulfilled ALL those requirements of the law that time, for Ted Cruz to be a "Natural Born Citizen".
Ted Cruz did NOT NEED a Court and a Judge to "Nationalize" him.

“Senator Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.
... The U.S. Constitution allows only a “natural born” American citizen to serve as president.
Most legal scholars who have studied the question agree that includes an American born overseas to an American parent, such as Cruz.

"Natural Born Citizen" was defined for the United States, BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS !

The Naturalization Act of 1790, let's read it !

United States Congress, "An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" (March 26, 1790).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That any Alien being a free white person,
who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years,
may be admitted to become a citizen thereof on application to any common law Court of record in any one of the States
wherein he shall have resided for the term of one year at least,
and making proof to the satisfaction of such Court  that
he is a person of good character,
and taking the oath or affirmation prescribed by law
to support the Constitution of the United States,
which Oath or Affirmation such Court shall administer,
and the Clerk of such Court shall record such Application, and the proceedings thereon;
and thereupon such person shall be considered as a Citizen of the United States. 


And the children of such person so naturalized,
dwelling within the United States,
being under the age of twenty one years at the time of such naturalization,
shall also be considered as citizens of the United States. 

And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States,
shall be considered as natural born Citizens: 
Provided, that
the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States: 
Provided also, that
no person heretofore proscribed by any States, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid,
except by an Act of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed.