Is Ted Cruz even eligible to be President?

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45. Originally, requirements for obtaining and retention of

US citizenship for those born abroad were stricter. Apart from simply getting official documentation of birth abroad to a US citizen, those born abroad to US citizens (apart from those born on embassies or military bases that are officially considered to be US "territory&quot also had to satisfy a US residence requirement for a certain number of years between certain ages in order to confirm their US citizenship or other such. But those requirements were later dropped.

Depending on when you had to undergo the process to verify your own US citizenship, the presiding judge may have been operating under one of the previous iterations. How to obtain/retain US citizenship for a child born abroad, especially when only one parent is a US citizen, has gone through several confusing changes.

But it is widely understood that a "natural born" person acquires US citizenship at birth, while anyone else acquires it by being naturalized, which is a whole different process. So, should you actually wish to present yourself as a candidate for US President, your birth abroad should not be the disqualifier. And Ted Cruz also qualifies as a natural born US citizen, I am most sorry to say.

For a very interesting historical overview of the subject, I highly recommend the following link: https://americansabroad.org/files/8813/3589/8133/childcit.pdf

I have had the very great pleasure of knowing both the late Andy Sundberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Sundberg) and Warren Furth (

), both of whom were also staunch Democrats, of course!