I have read it plenty of times. It specifies that citizenship descends through the father. Frozen into the Constitution for purposes of qualifying for the presidency.
There are two provisions. The first is about the residence of the father and the 2nd is about the acceptability to the state.
When I was born there were no provisions that had to be met by any law. I was an NBC.
See the difference between an NBC and one NOT meeting those provisions in 1790?
Just because you had a citizen parent that didn’t make you an NBC like I automatically was.
Had Barack Obama been born overseas, there is no way under these provisions of the 1790 law that he would have been an NBC. His dad was Kenyan British and had NEVER been pursuing residency. He’d always been a student. (Ignore the white issue from that time. It’s irrelevant to this point.)
So a child born to a us citizen overseas was not automatically a us citizen in 1790.
I’m not saying Cruz wouldn’t have made it in 1790 but his Cuban father giving up his us resident status in canada would have been a complicated legal issue.