[FreeReign]

True. At that time, the fathers citizenship is the one that mattered. Women were still Citizens, though their 'legal' Rights differed from men. Even today, a wife traditionally takes the husband's name and their children have the same. The problem is that you're taking the Original Right of men (which were later expanded to include women) and then shrinking it to only include women. I don't see how that's logical. Government can only expand the acknowledgment of Natural Rights, it can never reduce them.

If there if a natural right for the wife of a citizen father to automatically become a citizen then certainly there is a natural right for father of a citizen mother to automatically become a citizen.

[MamaTexan]

If there if a natural right for the wife of a citizen father to automatically become a citizen then certainly there is a natural right for father of a citizen mother to automatically become a citizen.

I didn't say there was a natural right for 'the wife of a citizen father to automatically become a citizen', I said Women were Citizens, too, although they had differing Rights.

The word 'automatic' appears nowhere in my post.

[xzins]

No, there is not even now a right for a spouse to be a declared a US citizen. Obviously, otherwise Cruz’s dad would have been declared a US citizen by virtue of his wife’s being a US citizen. Any non-US citizen must be naturalized.