Doug Miller wrote in
:

Yes, by a law with an even more expansive definition of birthright
citizenship.

I see your problem here. You are assuming birthright
citizenship is the same as natural born citizen. There
is nothing in the law that says that (altho it's not an
unreasonable assumption). There is considerable reason
to think the founding fathers did not consider them to
be the same thing.

(just as an aside, under the act of 1790 Cruz would definately
not be a natural born citizen, so it's good for him that it
no longer applies).

The article explicitly states the contrary; did you actually read it?

"Indeed, because his father had also been resident in the United
States, Senator Cruz would have been a “natural born Citizen” even
under the Naturalization Act of 1790. "

It was my understanding that Cruz's father did not reside
in the US until after Cruz's birth. Apparently I'm mistaken
in that (it appears, having looked up the info on Cruz's
father, that he's a religious loon of the first order. Not
something particularly desirable in the family of a
presidential candidate, unfortunately).

John