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Sen. Ted Cruz was born in Canada with immdiate Canadian citizenship, his father’s Cuban citizenship by jus sanguinnis under the Cuban constitution, and the right to request statutory U.S. citizenship from the U.S. State Department. These are all facts of birth which negate any possibility of being a natural born citizen. A natural born citizen is born with U.S. citizenship and no foreign citizenship at birth or at any point in time after birth.

Ted Cruz was BORN a UNITED STATES CITIZEN, which is all that is required to be a natural born citizen and eligible to be President.

Ted Cruz is Constitutionally eligible to be President - according to the top authorities of the early United States who knew exactly what the Founding Fathers meant by "natural born citizen."

"It is not necessary that a man should be born in this country, to be 'a natural born citizen.' It is only requisite that he should be a citizen by birth, and that is the case with all the children of citizens who have ever resided in this country, though born in a foreign country."

- James Bayard, A Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (1833)

This was part of Bayard's discussion of qualifications to be President and Presidential eligibility.

Bayard's exposition of the Constitution was read and approved by the Great Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall, by the legendary Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and by the famous Chancellor James Kent, as well as other legal experts of the early United States.

Aside from that, Bayard should darn well have known what he was talking about. Not only was his father a US Senator and US Represenative, his grandfather (who was retired and lived not terribly far away when James was growing up) was Richard Bassett.

Bassett held the rank of United States Senator #1 in our First Congress. He was also a Revolutionary War veteran and one of the 39 Constitutional Convention Delegates who Signed the Constitution.

Oh. And not one single person ever said that James Bayard was wrong about his understanding of what "natural born citizen" meant.

Ted Cruz was BORN a UNITED STATES CITIZEN, which is all that is required

This is false. Hamilton proposed the Presidential qualification that he be a "born citizen," but this was rejected by the founders in favor of John Jay's reccommendation that the President be only a natural born citizen.

Please stop lying about our Founding Fathers.

... and that is the case with all the children of citizens ...

Do you think it's possible that when Bayard wrote the word "citizens", i.e., plural, he meant both parents have to be citizens, and not just one?