U.S. CITIZENSHIP BY THE LAW North American Law Center

1) NATURAL BORN CITIZEN As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by

the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and

succeed to all their rights. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these

become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. understood by

the Founders in Article II of the US Constitution)

2) NATIVE BORN CITIZEN - 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. (The

14th Amendment definition for

3) NATURALIZED CITIZEN - the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire

citizenship or nationality of that country. It may be done by a statute, without any effort on the

part of the individual (aka anchor baby), or it may involve an application and approval by legal

authorities, (such as a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) form filed with the US State

Department at the time of birth). (This includes born here or

abroad, under the 14th)

4) UNDOCUMENTED anyone who is not natural born, native born or otherwise naturalized as a

legal citizen of the United States, also known in U.S. law as an al alien. (Individuals in the

USA via a VISA, or visiting on vacation, or with other written consent of the US Government, are

here legally, but are NOT citizens.)

5) The four above terms are NOT interchangeable. Each is unique and distinct from the other. Only

one of the four is constitutionally eligible for the Oval Office. No person except a natural born

citizen shall be eligible to the office of President. exception were those alive at the

time of the adoption, who became

Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Nicki Haley all fall under #2, native born citizens under 14th Amendment

naturalization. None of them are natural born US Citizens.

Ted Cruz falls under #4 at present He resides in the USA without any U.S. citizenship documents at all.

Rafael Edward Cruz was a native born citizen of Canada at birth in 1970. Mr. Cruz maintained his legal

Canadian citizenship from birth, until he renounced that citizenship in May of 2014. No U.S. citizenship

papers of any type, bearing Ted Cruzs identity, have been made public. Only his proof of Canadian

citizenship has been made public.

At the very best, Ted Cruz might be a naturalized citizen of the United States, if any U.S.

documentation to authenticate is ever made public.

FINAL WORD - gal stature,

thereby eliminating the NBC clause in Article II and opening up the Oval Office to anyone from

anywhere, with no U.S. documentation at all. If that effort is successful, the new requirements for the

Oval Office will be only someone who has attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen

Years a resident within the United States