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Cruz relies on the 1790 Act of Congress in regards to his citizenship status. That Naturalization Act of Congress was repealed and replaced with a new one that removed the term “natural born” because Congress was only given authority to make as citizens, those born as aliens, a.k.a. naturalization, hence that Act of Congress was rightly called, the Naturalization Act of 1790. If your citizenship is conferred upon you by an act of Congress, you are a naturalized citizen, whether that act of Congress takes place at birth or at a later date.

“Cruz relies on the 1790 Act of Congress in regards to his citizenship status.”

No, he does not.

The 1790 Act has been replaced by Congress many times over the last 230 years or so.

The law as it existed when Ted Cruz was born was similar to the 1790 Act.

The reason the 1790 Act is significant is that 20 of the members of Congress who voted for it were also in the Constittutional Convention who wrote the Constitution, including 8 who actually wrote the “natural born citizen” clause of the US Constitution.

SO, RIDDLE ME THIS BAT MAN:

If “natural born citizen” did not include people born in another country,

THEN WHY OH WHY

did the people who WROTE the US Constitution

VOTE for the 1790 Act which defined “natural born citizen” as including those born outside of the country?

The people who WROTE the “natural born citizen” clause voted for a law saying that people born in foreign countries to US citizen parents ARE “NATURAL BORN CITIZENS.”

CASE CLOSED, right?

Could you possibly imagine a stronger smoking gun than that?

If you were an honest person, if you actually cared about the truth, could you possibly think of any more final, conclusive, decisive, mouth-shutting evidence than that?

The people who WROTE the “natural born citizen” clause into the Constitution

VOTED FOR a law in 1790 making it clear that people born in other countries are natural born citizens.

Debate over, right?

I mean, if you were an honest person, that is.

“because Congress was only given authority to make as citizens, those born as aliens, a.k.a. naturalization,”

SAYS WHO? That’s complete bullshit. Prove it.

” hence that Act of Congress was rightly called, the Naturalization Act of 1790”

Doesn’t matter what it is called.

IT NEVER matters what a statute is called.

Congress routinely includes hundreds of unrelated issues in the same bill.

You really are naïve if you think that the title of a bill limits its scope.

If Congress passes a law to confiscate your property it will be called the “Saving Warm Little Puppies, Helping Children, and Doing Good Things Bill of 2017.”

The Title of a bill has NEVER been a limitation on the scope of its contents.