http://www.federalistblog.us/2008/11/natural-born_citizen_defined/
Was, or was not Trump’s mother granting Trump dual citizenship?
Natural-Born Citizen Defined
One universal point most all early publicists agreed on was natural-born citizen must mean one who is a citizen by no act of law. If a person owes their citizenship to some act of law (naturalization for example), they cannot be considered a natural-born citizen. This leads us to defining natural-born citizen under the laws of nature – laws the founders recognized and embraced.
Under the laws of nature, every child born requires no act of law to establish the fact the child inherits through nature his/her father’s citizenship as well as his name (or even his property) through birth. This law of nature is also recognized by law of nations. Sen. Howard said the citizenship clause under the Fourteenth Amendment was by virtue of “natural law and national law.â€
The advantages of Natural Law is competing allegiances between nations are not claimed, or at least with those nations whose custom is to not make citizens of other countries citizens without their consent. Under Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes (1866) made clear other nation’s citizens would not be claimed: “All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States.â€
No, she was an American citizen several years before his birth. In that time when she became a citizen, she had to renounce her other and swear allegiance to this country.
As to the rest of your post, Trump needed no act of law to become a citizen as he meets both jus soli and jus sanguineness.
Had Cruz been born under the same condition, there could be no argument what so ever of his eligibility, but his situation opens up cause for debate which is exactly what the founders were trying to avoid.
She was a naturalized citizen five years before he was born Nice try.
Trump’s mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth on US soil.