Posted on 02/05/2016 11:33:35 AM PST by Enlightened1
Who is a natural-born citizen? Who, in other words, is a citizen at birth, such that that person can be a President someday?
The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way: “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.” But even this does not get specific enough. As usual, the Constitution provides the framework for the law, but it is the law that fills in the gaps.
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are “citizens of the United States at birth:”
•Anyone born inside the United States *
•Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person’s status as a citizen of the tribe
•Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
•Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
•Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
•Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
•Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
•A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
* There is an exception in the law — the person must be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. This would exempt the child of a diplomat, for example, from this provision.
Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-born, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President. These provisions allow the children of military families to be considered natural-born, for example.
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_citi.html
If Cruz gets the nomination, then just know the DNC, along with GOPe, will shop a federal judge to disqualify Cruz. Then at the Republican convention the delegates will nominate Mr. Gang of 8 Rubio.
I’ll check this thread again in an hour to read the arguing :)
Get over it. This BS is going Nowhere.
Blah blah blah
LOL! Yeah it’s Friday let’s have fun.
Figured I would throw some wood on the fire. LOL!
I agree with you entirely, except for one thing. They will not strip Cruz of his delegates and annoint Rubio, they will strip both Cruz and Rubio, and annoit Jeb. He says he is going to be the nominee, and he is the ultimate insider, and a member of the controlling family whose turn it is to be president. Please, do not waste your vote on Rubio or Cruz. If you do not like Trump, then vote for another candidate who is at no risk of losing his delegates.
As the child of an American citizen who had lived in the United States for some period of 10 years, at lest 5 of them over the age of 14, he is a citizen at birth — i.e., natural born — no matter where he was born.
This is a fraud perpetrated by The Don and his little bots, who know better. This is typical of The Don. Yet another reason why he’s unsuited to the presidency.
Now, let’s talk about real issues and policies, and stop wasting time on this garbage.
If I read the post correctly:
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time).
this is the category Cruz falls into and therefore is legal.
Argument concluded.
However, if the GOPe and DNC raise a court stink, all conservatives should scream loud and proud about the “damage” being done to the 14th Amendment.
oh look its a screaming mimi!
(Thought they were extinct...wish they’d stayed that way.)
Trump is intellectually and emotionally unstable.
lol. When I read it i said “oh boy, here we go” :)
Perhaps hillary’s legal problems are weighing on her election.
That and he’s utterly unlikable.
Great points and I will be voting for Trump.
Cruz in the very worst case complies with two of those definitions. Your post is the opposite of true.
So why is your title precisely opposite to the conclusion in the body of your post?
Meanwhile lawyers and public officials in both Illinois and New Hampshire say otherwise..
This is a dirty campaign trick.
Trump should apologize, fire someone, and give Cruz some of his delegates.
Just saying.
she’s
Enough already, Yeb.
Why, it’s like a broken record that has been spinning since Goofy brought it up.
His mother was not in the military or a diplomat.
I agree with your second point.
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