[Yosemitest]

YES !
THAT IS CORECT !

There's NOTHING to THINK ABOUT !
The LAW IS THE LAW !

Someone once asked:

" Do you really think that Thomas Jefferson
or any of the authors of the constitution
would view the bastard offspring of these unfortunate women as Natural Born United States Citizens?"

"Bastard offspring" by definition means the "unfortunate" mother was NOT MARRIED. That statement is IRRELEVANT !

When Ted Cruz was born, his parents were "IN WEDLOCK".

Now for your next IRRELEVANT statement:

"And using your logic wouldn't the children of these bastard offspring be Natural Born Citizens
regardless of the location of their birth
also be Natural Born United States Citizens?
If not then tell me why
using your logic we do not have thousands upon thousands of Natural Born US Citizens who are decedents from these Muslim bastard children?"

AGAIN, that "STRAW MAN" IS IRRELEVANT, when it comes to TED CRUZ being a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN of the United States ON THE DAY HE WAS BORN !

You should do better research when it comes to Thomas Jefferson.
Read Thomas Jefferson's own BILL on there "Natural Born Citizen" requirements for the CommonWealth of Virginia:

Thomas Jefferson, A Bill Declaring Who Shall Be Deemed Citizens Of This Commonwealth

May 1779 Virginia Papers 2:476–78

Be it enacted by the General Assembly,

that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth
and all who have resided therein two years next before the passing of this act,
and all who shall hereafter migrate into[Volume 4, Page 488] the same;
and shall before any court of record give satisfactory proof by their own oath or affirmation,
that they intend to reside therein,
and moreover shall give assurance of fidelity to the commonwealth; and all infants WHERESOEVER BORN,
whose father, if living,
or otherwise, whose mother was, a citizen at the time of their birth,
or who migrate hither,
their father, if living,
or otherwise their mother becoming a citizen,
or who migrate hither without father or mother, shall be deemed CITIZENS of this commonwealth,
until they relinquish that character in manner as herein after expressed:
And all others NOT BEING CITIZENS of any the United States of America, shall be deemed aliens.


The clerk of the court shall enter such oath of record,
and give the person taking the same a certificate thereof,
for which he shall receive the fee of one dollar.
And in order to preserve to the citizens of this commonwealth, that natural right,
which all men have of relinquishing the country, in which birth, or other accident may have thrown them,
and, seeking subsistance and happiness wheresoever they may be able, or may hope to find them:
And to declare unequivocably what circumstances shall be deemed evidence of an intention in any citizen to exercise that right,
it is enacted and declared,
that whensoever any citizen of this commonwealth, shall
by word of mouth in the presence of the court of the county, wherein he resides,
or of the General Court,
or by deed in writing, under his hand and seal, executed in the presence of three witnesses,
and by them proved in either of the said courts,
openly declare to the same court,
that he RELINQUISHES the character of a citizen,
and shall DEPART the commonwealth;
or whensoever he shall WITHOUT such declaration DEPART the commonwealth AND ENTYER INTO THE SERVICE OIF ANY OTHER STATE,
not in enmity with this, or any other of the United States of America,
or do any act whereby he shall become a subject or citizen of such state,
such person shall be considered as having exercised his natural right of EXPATRIATING himself,
and shall be deemed NO CITIZEN of this commonwealth from the time of his departure.

SO there, you have PROOF

that Thomas Jefferson,
or for that matter, ANY of the authors of the constitution,
would view TED CRUZ as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN of the United States,
ON THE DAY HE WAS BORN !

1st United States Congress, 21-26 Senators and 59-65 Representatives

[GBA]

You're conclusion seems to be in error:

...and all infants WHERESOEVER BORN,

In Ted's case: IN CANADA

whose father, if living,

Yes, father is living and NOT a citizen

or otherwise, whose mother was, a citizen at the time of their birth,

His Mother might or might not have been a citizen at his birth.

or who migrate hither, their father, if living, or otherwise their mother becoming a citizen, or who migrate hither without father or mother,

shall be deemed CITIZENS of this commonwealth,

You have misstated Jefferson:

"SO there, you have PROOF that Thomas Jefferson, or for that matter, ANY of the authors of the constitution, would view TED CRUZ as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN of the United States, ON THE DAY HE WAS BORN !

By your own quoted passage, Jefferson said, assuming Ted's father was a living citizen, (or if his father was dead that his mother was a citizen), when Ted was born, then Ted is just a citizen.

Unfortunately, however, not a "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN of the United States" as you want to believe.

Also unfortunate, Ted's dad is still living and he was NOT an American citizen when Ted was born in Canada.

So...THAT would make Ted a Canadian "ON THE DAY HE WAS BORN !".

Just out of curiosity, what do you call the citizenship of someone who was born here in country to American citizen parents?

[Democratic-Republican]

SO there, you have PROOF
that Thomas Jefferson,
or for that matter, ANY of the authors of the constitution,
would view TED CRUZ as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN of the United States,
ON THE DAY HE WAS BORN !

That makes no sense.

First of all, PLEASE! I am begging you to post *without* any formatting next time. PLEASE!

Secondly, you are continually, I mean *continually* interchanging the terms citizen and natural born citizen in your posting. You seem to grab every occurrence of citizen that appears in early documents as some kind of pertinent evidence.

I guess you are in good company since both Rush and Levin also interchange those terms, but it is a mistake and you have to face the most basic fact here ... citizen ≠ natural born citizen ... everyone knows it, everyone has always known it, at least until this mad dash to revisionism began with candidate Dumbo.

You are defeating your own purpose here, your conclusions are not just wrong but involve gluing together completely different things.

Furthermore, why grab documents from the colonial era when the looser Articles of Confederation were operative, and the people were still citizens of their respective states, and long before the Constitutional Convention which ultimately all these States ratified?

And as you imagine Jefferson supporting anything about Cruz/Canada/NBC, well unless your imagination has him possibly sympathizing with Frenchies from Quebec, even that does not hold water since Cruz was born in what was British Canada.

Partial humor aside, I can assure you that if Jefferson actually supported your tenuous conclusion, his protege James Madison would have quickly set him straight. Did you even read the pertinent information right from the horse's mouth?