Here is Ted Cruz certificate of birth. It says he was a Natural Born Canadian, not a Natural Born American.
Problem is that the 1790 act stipulates “parents” plural, which would not apply to Cruz. The notion that one parent, and especially the mother, passes on natural born citizenship is a much later innovation that wasn’t around at the time of the Founders.
Further, the Bellei case actually supports the birther case, which the author apparently doesn’t understand.
Too late. 28% in the latest polling believe it.
Such numbers are “sticky”. Likely 1/4 of people will believe this ten years after Ted has assumed room temperature.
Trump knew EXACTLY what he was doing. Hope he is as precise and lethal when attacking Democrats.
Yes..yes... just put that all out of your minds.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Just take your blue pill and believe what we tell you!
Let’s see Cruz’s CRBA.
Why hasn’t he released it?
An act of Congress can not change the Constitution, only an ammendment can. Citizens under U.S.C. 8 .....1401, are Naturalized at birth because they are NOT Natural Born.
Let’s not.
The Supremes need to make a decision. Like the 2000 election they need to get involved but BEFORE the primary season. Which means NOW.
I'm just about fed up with all these ignorant so called "experts" who themselves do not know what the h3ll they are talking about.
Don't tell me what this or that family did. Tell me why they put the word "natural" in the requirement back in 1787.
Just tell me that. I don't care about trivia occurring hundreds of years later.
Can we drop this phony matter now? This article proves Ted Cruz is a natural-born citizen.
Sorry, GOPe!
Don't trust me, read the case yourself. Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971)
Mr. Bellei was a US citizen who was born in Italy. His mother was a US citizen, his father was Italian.
Mr. Cruz and Mr. Bellei have identical birth circumstance for purposes of analysis, although Mr. Bellie's father never resided in the US - totally irrelevant factoid, but it is a potential difference in a different case.
Citizenship granted to Mr. Cruz and Mr. Bellei arises under slightly different statutes. As noted in opening, Mr. Bellei was a US citizen, as is Mr. Cruz. Under the Act of Congress that applied to Bellei, he had to reside in the US for certain number of years before he reached a certain age. It was a further condition, to maintain the US citizenship that he obtained at birth.
Mr. Bellei did not satisfy the conditions enumerated in the act of Congress, which created the issue that lead to the case. Mr. Bellei lost his citizenship, and sued to get it back.
If Bellei had been an NBC, his citizenship would not be subject to an Act of Congress, and could not have been stripped. The case would not exist.
The case was decided 5-4, turning on the meaning of "in", in the 14th amendment phrase "born or naturalized in the United States." Obviously, Bellei was not born in the US.
The majority said that Bellei was naturalized in Italy, not in the US. And so, it was not unconstitutional to strip him of his citizenship. The dissent felt this literal reading was wring, and "in the United states" should be read as "anywhere in the world."
The case is loaded with historical reference and at one point literally says "Bellei, as a naturalized American ..."
Don't take my word for it. I linked the case above. Correct me where I am wrong, or admit this is the was SCOTUS views citizenship acquired solely by operation of an Act of Congress.
Your willingness to thrash our constitution to elect your guy disgusts me. You are no better then the rats that elected Zero.
Cruz could have put an end to it when Trump suggested it in the WaPo interview.
Or even better, the *brilliant-minded* Cruz could have had the smarts to ANTICIPATE this to be a problem and taken care of it before running for POTUS!
The fact that he didn’t leads to to suspect it wouldn’t be that easy, and it would indeed be a problem for his eligibility, and he hoped he could skate by without vetting.
Some of the Trump followers would not have a problem with totalitarianism; many of them right here on FR have stated that would like for Trump to be a dictator so that he can 'make America great again'.
At the time of his birth, Cuba had exactly the same claim on Ted that the US did. Born abroad of one citizen parent. As far as I know, Ted is still a naturalized citizen of Cuba, for real.
We’ve already got a president with a mysterious background. It would be hypocritical to put forth our own. If Cruz has nothing to hide he should welcome getting this cleared up.
It is arguments such as this that right now, I am in the undecided side of the GOP 2016 election year in regards to Cruz and Trump.
Particularly because nothing that I've learned since contradicts it.
There is the fact of this matter, and Trump said so himself in the debate.