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. (The Natural Law definition 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 citizen)
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 anchor baby or citizen at birth 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 illegal 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. (The only exception were those alive at the
time of the adoption, who became citizens by virtue of the adoption.)

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 - The current legal effort is to make all four terms synonymous, equal in legal 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