Posted on 09/15/2018 10:06:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
For What It Is Worth Department
A letter addressed to Cruz, R-Texas, from the Canadian government said he had “formally renounced Canadian citizenship and pursuant to the Citizenship Act [ceased] to be a citizen” on May 14.
Cruz, 43, was born to an American mother and a Cuban father in Calgary, Alberta. The potential Republican presidential candidate automatically became a U.S. citizen at birth, but under Canadian citizenship laws, he also became a citizen of the Great White North, according to The Dallas Morning News.
June 11, 2014,
https://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2014/06/11/us-sen-ted-cruz-renounces-canadian-citizenship
That is not what ‘Natural Born’ means. The Founders clearly expressed that there were ‘Citizens’ and that there were ‘Natural Born Citizens.’
Later, Congress was charged with establishing the rules for ‘Naturalized Citizens.’ Therefore , Three categories of Citizens.
See Article 2; Section 1; Clause 5
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President;
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