Did you know that the statute which makes Cruz a citizen has an age requirement for the mother? If the mother is too young, US Citizenship does NOT transfer to her child. Did you know that?
Thank God Ted Cruz's mother was old enough, else he wouldn't be a "natural born citizen".
So tell me, what kind of citizen is someone who's mother is too young for the Congressional law to apply?
Another question. Why would the age of the mother affect the "natural" citizenship of the child?
I can’t wait to see his answer to that!
Natural Born Citizen means Citizen at Birth and nothing else.
It is NATURE that made one a citizen, through the act of Birth, under the laws in effect at the time of Birth.
Want proof of my argument?
A question for you -— the size of the United States and its territories has not stayed the same through the years, those boundaries have changed several times. Those boundaries changed by act of a PEN! Someone WROTE A BILL, Congress VOTED on that Bill, and a President SIGNED that Bill into Law.
So, it was not an “Act of God” that changed the boundaries of the USA and its territories. It was purely the combined acts of many men.
There goes your “Natural Law” nonsense, huh?
Those born outside of the original 13 States owe their Citizenship to the pen that drew the new boundaries, in whatever State or Territory they were born.
If the one US Citizen parent in subsection G did not meet the requirements and the individual in question did not qualify as a citizen under any other subsection, then they would not be (per the first sentence) ...” nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:”. Thus they would not be citizens and would need to be naturalized.
The age of the mother affects the transference of citizenship at birth because .... because it is the law of the land, because Congress said so. The very same reason that citizenship is granted to those born on US soil regardless of parentage - cause Congress said so. Because Congress has the specific authority to say so per Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution.
If Congress wanted to say that a person born with 6 fingers on the right has citizenship at birth, regardless of parentage, location or any other factor, it is within their power to do so.