Posted on 01/03/2014 12:16:29 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz isn’t leaving any room for doubt. He’s reached out to his lawyers — and met with billionaire businessman Donald Trump — and is taking steps to renounce his citizenship with Canada.
The tea-party favorite said he only discovered he held dual American-Canadian citizenship after the Dallas Morning News reported it a few months ago. But he doesn’t want the issue to become an albatross — as it did for President Obama over his birth certificate when a host of sources, from politicos to Mr. Trump, questioned his true place of birth. So Mr. Cruz is taking a dramatic action.
“I have retained counsel that is preparing the paperwork to renounce the citizenship” with Canada, he said, The Daily Mail reported.
Mr. Cruz said he expects the process will wrap in 2014.
The Dallas Morning News reported in August that Mr. Cruz’s parents lived in Calgary when he was born, and they only moved to America when he was 4 years old. Mr. Cruz’s citizenship has taken on especial importance in recent months as talk about the next presidential election simmers, and the Texas senator is thought to be a possible GOP candidate.
Mr. Cruz said to the Dallas Morning News that he’d discussed his birth with Mr. Trump — who once launched his own investigation into Mr. Obama’s birth certificate — but “not in any significant respect.”
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“The Constitutional definition for Natural born citizen requires that both parents be U.S. citizens at birth, ...”
I wish. Unfortunately there is no “Constitutional definition” for Natural Born Citizen. That was a major frustration when SCOTUS wouldn’t take any of the Obama eligibility challenges.
“Both parents” was the definition of de Vattell in “The Law of Nations,” but it does not appear in the Constitution of the United States, The Justices of the Supreme Court seem content to have it stay that way.
My guess would be that his parents never thought to tell him -- or gave it any thought themselves.
Cruz probably grew up thinking he was a US citizen who, incidentally, had been born in Calgary, Alberta -- unaware that he was entitled to Canadian citizenship, at age 18 (or 21), if he wanted it.
The matter becomes an issue, I suppose, only if you're going to run for President -- and run immediately after somebody with Obama's curious history.
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