A law that was a law before it was law! Birfer reasoning never ceases to astonish!
The significance of the 1790 law is that it demonstrates what the common understanding of the term NBC was at the time. Namely, that being a citizen due to being born abroad to Americans is to be natural born.
If 1790 act is definition for natural born, why didn’t Cruz cite that as making him natural born, when asked specifically in the last debate. And why does the Constitutional requirement to hold the office, used the words ‘natural born’ .... Why does it not say eligibility requirements under the 1790 act? There is a difference in natural born and naturalized citizen... Both parents must be US citizens to ‘birth’ a natural born citizen. Cruz’s father was not an US citizen when Cruz was born in Canada...
“A law that was a law before it was law! Birfer reasoning never ceases to astonish!”
Disrespect is not going to earn you or your remarks any respect; neither will your errors.
“The significance of the 1790 law is that it demonstrates what the common understanding of the term NBC was at the time.”
That much is true, but unfortunately for you misbeliefs, not in the way you thought.
“Namely, that being a citizen due to being born abroad to Americans is to be natural born.”
Again that is a very false and very willfully ignorant statement. The naturalization Act of 1790 actually says the child is born as a naturalized citizen of the U.S. and very definitely not as a natural born citizen. Furthermore, for many decades the child born abroad with a U.S. citizen was ineligible to acquire U.S. citizenship by naturalization. No British national or U.S. citizen born abroad has ever been eligible to acquire natural born citizenship without diplomatic immunity to shield the child from allegiance at birth to the foreign sovereign. Children born abroad can acquire citizenship only by naturalization.
The significance of the 1790 law is that it demonstrates what the common understanding of the term NBC was at the time. Namely, that being a citizen due to being born abroad to Americans is to be natural born.
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My take is the opposite of yours, their understanding made them remove “Natural Born” from the law.