“It [Naturalization Act of 1790] also provided for citizenship for the children of U.S. citizens born abroad, but specified that the right of citizenship did “not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States.”
Wonder why the “right of citizenship did not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States” was left out?
Cruz father was a resident of the U.S. for years before moving to Canada for his job.
That act even used the words "Natural Born Citizen" to foreign born children if the father was a citizen. Women at that time had no voting privileges and since that has been rectified I would apply that same definition as pertaining to the mother today.