This Iowa Public Radio story contains audio of Cruz' Cedar Falls speech:
Posted on 04/02/2015 11:51:36 AM PDT by QualityMan
Had the opportunity to hear Ted Cruz speak today in Cedar Falls, IA.
He was accompanied by Rod Blum, our newly elected representative. Event was well-attended.
Cruz was articulate, positive, and laid out his message and vision with passion and grace.
It was like a ray of light in the murk of the obamanation we have endured for the last 6 years.
I am on board.
Saw Cruz in Houston on Tuesday! His dad did a great job laying out his case in an introduction. I’m behind him all the way!
And enough all ready on the birth deal. Go ask McCain, who was born in Panama, if he thinks he is eligible.
If Cruz doesn’t win, the nation is finished. Period.
Welcome aboard.
I concur, Vienna.
Bullshit.
I was there too. Impressive crowd for this early in the cycle - around 200 people.
Precedent Obama has made that a moot point.
CRUZ TO VICTORY OR GET BUSHED !
TROLL.
Like the what he wrote on the poster.
I was in Cedar Rapids. Big enthusiastic crowd.
Is Ted Cruz a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as president? [Yes! And I support him! JimRob]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084490/posts
Is Ted Cruz Eligible for the Presidency?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3273307/posts
Yes Ted Cruz Is Eligible To Be President
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3054472/posts
This Iowa Public Radio story contains audio of Cruz' Cedar Falls speech:
Yeah, me too. He gets it.
No, he’s qualified. President Madison settled the question more than 200 years ago when asked about Americans born overseas or at sea.
If the parents were citizens and were ‘domiciled’ in the United States even though they ‘resided’ abroad or were aboard ship, then the child was considered natural born.
There is a legal distinction between the terms ‘domicile’ and ‘resident’. For example, if Thomas Jefferson had children while he ‘resided’ in France as US Ambassador, then his children were considered natural born because he maintained his ‘domicile’ in Monticello, Virginia.
Ted Cruz is qualified and eligible to be President of the United States.
Ted Cruz is ***destined*** to be the next President of the United States. It is his destiny and he can do nothing about it except fulfill it.
Here’s the rest of the explanation and also the background on the origination of the natural born requirement.
Cruz’s father was naturalized in 2005. He was a Cuban citizen when Ted was born in 1970. But it does not matter. It does not matter because his mother was a natural US Citizen.
Now before others get fired up about the notion that both parents had to be citizens in order for their children to be considered natural born, let’s review what life was like in the late 1700s, the 1800s and the early 1900s in America.
First note the fact that women were not allowed to vote until 1919 followed by passage of the 19th Amendment.
Second note that many early Americans took Indian wives because white women were scarce (life was rough) and many hands (children) were needed to survive the rough wilderness. Marriage was not so much about romance or passion as it was about making children (as many as possible), raising them and putting them to work.
One of my ancestors was a Mohican Indian Princess who married a decendant of Robert the Bruce. My ancestors were mostly English-Scots-Irish.
A lot has changed since that time; a lot.
The key fact to understand about citizenship in early America is that it was all on the male. If a woman married a US citizen, she was automatically a US Citizen, deriving all from her husband. Divorce was rarer than rare and dual citizenship was prohibited. If a woman was German or French, Spanish or Mexican, whatever, her citizenship line was voided and she folded in with her husband in regards to recognition of her legal status. Men had all the power over their wives.
So if a child was born to an American male who was a US Citizen, it did not matter where his wife, the mother of the child came from, she was considered a citizen because of him. Hence, it was construed that both father and mother as US Citizens gave birth to ‘natural born’ citizens. But the mother’s status was defaulted to her husband’s status so the requirement of two citizen parents was in reality a requirement that the father be a US Citizen.
With the 19th Amendment and on into the 20th Century all that changed. Women became legally equivalent to men insofar as citizenship status and rights. If she as a US Citizen had a child, it was pretty much granted that her child was natural born. But conditions were added.
At root of the notion of ‘Natural Born’ are the concerns of LOYALTY and ALLEGIANCE. These concerns were raised by John Jay in letters to General Washington that presidents must originate as ‘natural born’ to ensure their allegiance and loyalty because presidents would be Commanders-in-Chief of the Army and Navy and could potentially impose tyranny on the citizenry via military control.
Obviously if a US Citizen left the United States to live abroad and became a citizen of their newly adopted country, or if they gave up their ‘domicile’ in the United States, then something needed to be adjudicated as to children if such children were born abroad.
Now the content of post #34 can be read to understand that Ted Cruz is solidly eligible to be President because his mother was a US Citizen at the time of his birth because she was in Canada only for purposes of work while she maintained connections in the United States that constituted a legal domicile. For example, a relative accepting mail for a relative working outside the country temporarily would be construed as a domicile for the affected person.
Ted Cruz is eligible. Ted Cruz is destined for the White House. I believe he will gather more and more momentum such that he cannot be stopped except possibly by Executive Amnesty to ten million or more. That’s where the real battle will be.
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