[South Dakota]

Minor v happersett.
Cruz is not eligible

[re_nortex]

Cruz is not eligible.

Wrong and the boss makes his stance quite clear.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Cruz is eligible, and will be the best president since Reagan — and just FYI, the management of FR generally discourages people from wasting bandwidth on arguing against Cruz's eligibility.

[SoConPubbie]

Minor v happersett.
Cruz is not eligible

Minor v happersett does not define "Natural Born" to require two citizen parents at birth, also, there is nothing in the Constitution, US Law, or Supreme Court Ruling that defines "Natural Born" to require two citizens at birth, no matter how much you want to believe it.

[re_nortex]

Here's the link where our host makes it clear that Senator Ted Cruz is eligible for the office of POTUS. Go Ted go! Take America back! Woo hoo!

[Defiant]

After suffering through 8 years of Obama, I don’t care any more, and it is arguable he is eligible. During his first term, let’s have that convention of states, and we can fix it there, to clarify who is eligible to be President (while grandfathering current Presidents).

[Bulwyf]

Might want to recheck that.

[Boogieman]

In Minor v Happersett, they explicitly did NOT explore the question of children of citizens born outside the country to citizen parents, so they made no determination about it either way, since the question before them did not meet that condition. They also made no determination about the status of children born in the country to non-citizen parents.

One thing they did address was the meaning of “natural born”, as defined in the common law, and they confirmed that there were only two classes, natives or “natural” citizens, and aliens, or “naturalized” citizens. There is not a third class, of those who are citizens at birth, but not “natural born”. So, as Ted Cruz never had to be naturalized, it appears he must be natural born, having acquired citizenship from his native U.S. citizen mother at birth.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Ted's the only one I'd vote for. If he's not running, I'm not voting.

And that will be the first time since voting for President Regan in 1980.

[bobby.223]

Huh? I thought we had established it here a couple of years ago that he was eligible. GO TED!!!!!!

[CodeToad]

“Minor v happersett.”

*snicker* Really? You’re that stupid to quote something you know nothing of? “Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote.”

In case you were just too stupid to notice, Cruz is a man and the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote long before he was born.

[Jane Long]

Wrong-o.

[Ron H.]

IIRC that didn't stop the Kenyan!

[gimme1ibertee]

Cruz is not eligible.

Don't you think Cruz himself would know whether or not he's eligible to run? And, by the way,he certainly is.