I think most folks who’ve studied this agree that by current law Ted Cruz will be found eligible to run for the presidency in a fair court.
In our day, the legal system views ‘citizen at birth’ and ‘natural born citizen’ to be one and the same thing. It’s hard to escape that fact.
However, these contests can be held in just about every state, and there is probably some judge or judges before whom this could come who will view it differently for political or other reasons.
But that’s not really the issue to me. To me the issue is that just a year and a half ago, Ted Cruz was a Canadian citizen. He will be our first foreign born president who is a dual citizen, and although he recently dropped the Canadian part, there’s really nothing blocking him from taking up his Canadian citizenship again some day.
There’s something about that that doesn’t ring WISE to me about that.
That is a mistakken notion. Cruz has never been a Canadian citizen. Nor did he really need to "renounce" same a year-and-a-half ago -- that was merely symbolism.
Because he was born on Canadian soil, Cruz was eligible for Canadian citizenship and could've become a Canadian citizen -- had he formally opted for it anytime after he reached his majority (thereby renouncing his u.S. citizenship). But he never took such action, thus he never became a Canadian citizen.
If back in your day was seven years ago you might be right, otherwise you are just spouting B$.
I remember countless conversations about NBC after WW II and GIs began bringing home their foreign born children. I never talked to a single vet that considered his foreign born child as NBC.
It doesn't really matter this cycle because there is no avenue for Ted to become the nominee. It distresses me that the Cruz supporters believe that the GOP would get to a brokered convention and do anything other than pull a candidate out of their collective @rses.