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During the campaigns for Republican primary voters, in a masterful political stroke, candidate Donald Trump sowed doubt into the minds of would-be voters by hinting that candidate Ted Cruz might not be a natural-born citizen of the United States and thus ineligible to the hold office of the presidency should Cruz win the nomination and then win the general election.

It is true. Cruz is a U.S. citizen by law. Congress granted Cruz citizenship through naturalization.

You can see how in WAS TED CRUZ A U.S. CITIZEN AT BIRTH? THE MCCARRAN-WALTER ACT (THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT OF 1952) WHICH THE RULED OVER HIM SAYS YES. At his birth on December 22, 1970, Ted Cruz only qualified for citizenship under Section 301(a)(7) of PL 414. Cruz failed the citizenship test under all other clauses of Section 301(a) of PL 414.

The true damning proof against Ted Cruz being a natural-born citizen is this:

Ted Cruz could have lost his citizenship under Section 301(b) of Public Law 414, which encodes the McCarran-Walter Act. Under Section 301(b), Congress required Ted to show up in the USA before turning 23. Further, as soon as Ted came to the USA, Ted needed to live within the USA for five years continuously as a condition of getting his citizenship. As well, to count those five years, the count could not have started until Ted was 14. Had Ted failed to do any of these, Ted would have been stripped of his conditional citizenship given to him by naturalization.

In PL 414, Section 301(b) pertained to Section 301(a)(7). Cruz only qualified for citizenship under Section 301(a)(7). Congress required Cruz to meet all of Section 301(b) before becoming a naturalized citizen.

Congress can't take away citizenship from natural-born citizens. Congress only can take away citizenship from those in the process of naturalizing who have been born outside the USA.

In 1967, in Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253, the United States Supreme Court robes ruled that citizens of the United States may not be deprived of their citizenship involuntarily. And in Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971), the robed ones narrowed the ruling of the Afroyim decision, stating that only a Fourteenth Amendment citizen had safeguarded citizenship, but Congress retained authority to regulate the citizenship status of a person who was born outside the United States to a U.S. citizen parent.

In 1978, Congress repealed the law at issue in Rogers v. Bellei —a requirement for a minimum period of U.S. residence. Even though, Congress removed Section 301(b), the USSC upheld that Congress could revoke citizenship of those like Cruz. Ted Cruz could not be natural-born because his conditional citizenship remained in jeopardy and doubt until the 1978 repeal.

To this day, Congress could re-instate such condition upon those born outside the jurisdiction and territory of the US Congress and such law would be constitutional according to the USSC.

Cruz could not argue citizenship under the 14th amendment:

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.

Ted Cruz was 1) not born in the states or territories of the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; 2) and was not naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

It is true. Ted Cruz' mom was a U.S. citizen and subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress precisely because the Congress claimed her according to the 16th Amendment, as well as the Revenue Acts of 1913, 1916 and 1918 along with the 1924 USSC ruling of Cook v. Tait.

So, if Ted Cruz' mom was subject to U.S. Congress taxation while in Canada, that could have made Ted a U.S. citizen upon his birth, irrespective of the citizenship of his dad and irrespective of any naturalization laws of Congress. Yet, I know of no one who has tested that legal theory.

However, would that make Ted would a natural-born? To be born is to be brought forth. Born is an Old English word, the alternative past participle of beran. To bear is an Old English word meaning to bear, bring; bring forth, produce; to endure, sustain; to wear. Natural enters English about the 1300 meaning, hereditary, by birth. The word derives from the Latin naturalis meaning by birth, according to nature.
The recognized ways anyone gains citizenship by sovereigns in general are these — 1) birth 2) naturalisation 3) reintegration 4) subjugation and 5) cession

Citizenship by birth can happen in one of two ways — 1) natural-born means inherited from birth by jurisdiction over territory, aka jus soli; 2) through a parent aka jus sanguinis.

The case of United States vs Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898),  practically settled what defines natural-born citizenship of the United States. The USSC justices ruled that natural-born citizens are those persons who are born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, without regard to the nationality of their parents.

In short, if a U.S. citizen acquired his citizenship through an act of Congress, he is not a natural-born citizen. Only those citizens who would have natural allegiance to Congress because of being born under their jurisdiction are natural-born citizens.

When a man is born under the jurisdiction of a law body, there is natural presumption that he must have allegiance to that body.

• If he goes against their laws, he is a criminal.
• If he goes against their laws specifically to subvert the lawmakers themselves, he is a special kind of criminal. He is a traitor.

To be a proper citizen, he would need to follow their laws. Thus he has natural allegiance that derives from the accident of his birth. Hence, he would be natural-born.

For many works on this, check out NATURAL-BORN U.S. CITIZENS. READ SNIPPETS FROM RECOGNIZED AMERICAN WORKS ON THE TOPIC INCLUDING CITED CASES.