Are you purposely ignoring the fact that it was the FOUNDERS who passed and signed into law the Naturalization Act of 1790. You do know it was signed into law by non other than George Washinton right?
It clearly shows that the founders had a very different idea as to what qualified as a NBC BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY SAID SO.
I am not the one purposely ignoring something. The Founders passed the 1790 Act and almost immediately realized it was flawed and not what they had meant to achieve. They repealed it and the replacement Law specifically did not grant natural born status to foreign born children of American citizens.
From 1790
“The Act also establishes the United States citizenship of certain children of citizens, born abroad, without the need for naturalization: “the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens: provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States”
Cruz father had never been a citizen of the United states at the time of birth so even 1790 doesnt apply.
Fundemental lack of understanding.