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Ted Cruz was born a Citizen according to the laws of the United States of America in effect at the time of his birth. He is by virtue of that fact a Natural Born Citizen in accordance with the plain meaning of the Constitution.

End of story.

Saying so does not make it so. To be a "natural born citizen" he must meet the requirements contemplated by the founders in 1787 when they wrote in the requirement.

According to their understanding, someone born in a foreign country to an American mother would not be an American citizen at all.

262 posted on 08/15/2013 4:11:03 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)

To: DiogenesLamp

-— According to their understanding, someone born in a foreign country to an American mother would not be an American citizen at all. -—

What country, then? Cuba? Canada?

263 posted on 08/15/2013 4:13:08 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas

To: DiogenesLamp

Saying so does not make it so.

And sayin' it ain't so does not make it ain't so.

282 posted on 08/15/2013 8:22:14 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)

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