Posted on 08/19/2013 6:17:17 PM PDT by kristinn
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship.
“Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship,” Cruz said in a statement. “Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American.”
SNIP
“Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to claim Canadian citizenship, I assumed that was the end of the matter,” Cruz said.
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No, it was the liberal Dallas Morning News that started this **** storm this AM, and Ted put it to rest before dinner.
Good for him.
Nothing against Canada.
And BTW, I highly doubt Cruz would be running for pres. This even makes it more remote. Many of his fans are foolish but Cruz didn’t want to be their buzz kill.
I know he aint running for Prime Minister.
Nothing against Canada.
Well, if Cruz cannot run, Paul is too libertarian, and Palin will be mauled by a pack or rabid libs on her way to the first debate, looks like Christi Cream is the nominee.
Hillary, please report to the green room.
Better not be Christie. License to buy ammo, banned from seeking treatment for a mental ill “gay” child.
Insanity
Indignant concern troll is indignant and concerned.
I'm not even sure he speaks Canadian, ay?
Yeah, not the first time for the Dallas Morning News who have been playing bait and switch with Cruz.
I recall now where I read it. A National Journal article that a Queen’s University in Ontario Canadian professor said Cruz was Canadian.
This stuff has been percolating in the leftist press, which has been mostly oblivious to FReepers.
Cruz was an American citizen from birth. I never said otherwise.
He was never naturalized. He didn’t need to be naturalized. Only a non-citizen can be naturalized.
Cruz is not going to run for US pres despite what his fans want.
That's a nice theory, but not one Framer or any other major authority of the early United States EVER said that was the case.
In fact, the major authorities of the early United States absolutely contradict the claim - starting with President George Washington and the First Congress, which included close to half of the Signers of the Constitution.
At the time the Framers wrote NBC into the Constitution there was no dual citizenship. A person held allegiance to one flag and one flag only unless they were without a country.
Not true. The Supreme Court in 1795 - less than 10 years after the Constitution - recognized the existence of dual citizenship:
“...in the present cause, there being no proof, that Captain Talbot’s admission as a citizen of the French Republic, was with a view to relinquish his native country; and a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.”
- Chief Justice Rutledge in Talbot v. Janson 3 U.S. 133
Moreover, 3 of our first 4 Presidents held French citizenship... while serving as President.
Washington, Jefferson, and Madison.
Not that I'm recommending being a dual citizen while President. But they did it.
Mark Levin commented on a recent show about what he thinks of ‘Birthers’ and it is not good. He thinks they are obsessed. He thinks Birther talk about Cruz is crazy.
Mark Levin knows the Constitution like few other men. He is committed to the Constitution like few other men. He is a conservative, through and through. And he is right.
I am sure he would never bore a pael to melk a cow.
Canadian English is not so far from deep South USA.
But my point is that Cruz has never had any Canadian interests or allegiances, There is no family there.
This is much ado about nothing.
He may have family in Cuba, but his Father is the quintessential immigrant, and his Mother is a Life long American citizen, as is Ted.
He may or may not, but I applaud him fort poking Obama in the eye on this BC thing.
Good on Ted Cruz.
Mark Levin also said today he hasn’t studied the area of NBC and that he gave his opinion. Levin brought up the subject because someone was harassing him about it and a lead in to Cruz and before this story broke.
No Guts, No Glory
No, they didn't. What are you, just a troll?
You can't produce one single quote from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, any other Founder or Framer, or any major authority in the history of the United States that ever said Washington, Jefferson or Madison, or any of our other early Presidents, was ever "grandfathered in" to eligibility.
On the contrary, it has been clearly understood by all significant historians and legal experts throughout history that the purpose of the grandfather clause was NOT for Washington, Jefferson and Madison, but to honor Founders like Alexander Hamilton, born on the island of Nevis, and James Wilson, born in Scotland.
And this has been documented, in the past, right here at FreeRepublic.
Next up, I hope he pokes Obie in the eye again with his Harvard transcripts.
FUBO!!
FUBO!!
I'd like Cruz to take this angle. Give Obama tons of grief.
According to President George Washington and our First Congress - nearly half of the Signers of the Constitution in all - it isn't.
According to James Bayard, backed up by the legal experts of his day, including the Great Chief Justice John Marshall, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Chancellor James Kent and others, it isn't.
I like it too.
This guy is no rube.
It wont be a direct poke.
It will be a defense.
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