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It is unknown exactly where Chester Arthur was born, since the settlement is no longer in existence.
The questioning of his birth status was every bit as dishonest and disingenuous as the questioning of Cruz’ natural born citizenship.
Liars have a big stake in this election.
By no stretch of the imagination is Cruz what Washington would have considered to be an NBC. Now, in our day, they have changed that to mean ‘citizen at birth’ and they proscribe a different method of being such, but that’s Congress’ prerogative in a sense, since NBC was (sadly) never defined in any clear way. But the insights gained from the naturalization laws of 1790 and 1795 show that Washington wouldn’t have considered Ted Cruz to be a natural born citizen.