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.
>> 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 <<
Sorta correct, because one or both of those laws said that for somebody born abroad to be considered as natural-born, the FATHER had to be a US citizen. The mother was not mentioned.
So just try persuading the 53% of current USA voters who are female that their citizenship doesn’t really have the same full status as that of males. Lotsa luck with that!