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-- I believe in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution it states that anyone born to a parent, mother or father, that is a citizen of the US and that citizen has lived outside the US for less than four consecutive years at the time of the birth, is considered a naturalized citizen. --

Nope. The citizenship part of the 14th amendment says:

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

-- That was one of the major problems with the Obama birth in that his mother, Stanley Ann, had lived in Kenya for more than four years prior to his birth. And being born in Kenya created a need to BS on a birth certificate that has wrong info on it if he was to be considered a naturalized US citizen. --

The US laws that confer citizenship at birth have a US residency requirement for the citizen parent. For Obama, the law was five years after the age of 14. Obama's mother wasn't yet 19 years old when Obama was born, so she could not have passed citizenship under the law.

one of the major problems with the Obama birth in that his mother, Stanley Ann, had lived in Kenya for more than four years prior to his birth.

All allegedly.

At least I believe Cruz's parents are who he claims they are, and where he was born. (all of which makes him ineligible)

choldt:

Thank you for your entry. This particular problem still has a few twists. Your entry about the 14th amendment is based upon birth within the US. Cruz was born on foreign soil to a citizen mother which makes him a citizen as long as he was born within the residency requirements I can’t totally find. So far, I have been able to find the citizen parent must be a US citizen and lived within US proper for a period of at least five years and a certain amount of years post the parents 14th birthday. Wish I could find it all, but the web is murky right now on this topic.

Here is a long, but pretty good entry from a Gonzaga University review on the topic that enters a lot of questions about the 1790 act and the Wong Kim Ark case on the topic: http://blogs.gonzaga.edu/gulawreview/files/2011/01/Lohman1.pdf
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