Posted on 03/03/2015 5:44:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I read the comments sections on my articles. One of the comments I see consistently is "I like Ted Cruz, but I am worried he is not constitutionally qualified to be president."
So I decided to look into the issue.
After doing some research, here's what I discovered:
Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He had (past tense) Canadian citizenship, which he was entitled to automatically, having been born in Canada, and which he has since renounced. He was also born with American citizenship. His mother was an American; his father was not.
The Constitution says any candidate for president must be 35 years of age, a resident within the United States for 14 years and a "natural born citizen."
The question then is, what is a natural born citizen? I don't think there is any doubt that being born abroad doesn't prevent Cruz from being a natural born citizen. If so, any children born to American parents while abroad wouldn't be Americans. That makes no sense. And to eliminate doubt, Congress expressly passed a law saying children of Americans born outside America were in fact natural born Americans.
The Nationality Act of 1940 outlines which children become “nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.” In addition to those who are born in the United States or born outside the country to parents who were both citizens — or, interestingly, found in the United States without parents and no proof of birth elsewhere — citizenship goes to babies born to one American parent who has spent a certain number of years here...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What Constitution?
Cruz was a us citizen at birth, therefore a natural born citizen. I dare anyone to tell me what year Cruz was naturalized.
Well, it’s certainly a mute point after the Muslim ass that we have in office now, but I think it’s clear that he is not a natural born citizen in the way it was intended by our founding fathers.
You’re right, but if he runs and gets the nomination we’re gonna hear about this issue for six months from the entire MSM.
Precedent Obama has made every anchor baby eligible.
There really hasn’t been a Constitution since Usurpation Day
January 20, 2009
(they all knew)
And a few people here......
Natural born citizen and, naturalized citizen and native born citizen are not all the same thing. Natural born citizen would have been born on the soil of the country and have both parents as citizens. Otherwise, the founders would not have needed to exempt themselves from that presidential requirement since they obviously became citizens with the establishment of the Constitution.
Sigh... that’s the complete opposite of what we said about Hussein. Same situation.
We can all debate what the founding fathers meant by natural born citizen. But it seems clear that in reality, nobody is going to challenge Ted Cruz on this issue. A few cases were briught into court regarding Obama but those cases were quickly dismissed.
if Cruz is eligible, even tho he was born in canada to a foreign national parent, then so is Benjamin Netanyahu
none of which will make a bit of difference if he chooses to run, once the opposition research teams go to work on it, with the joyful assistance of the media.
I believe you are exactly right.
I also believe that we longer have that requirement after the current Pres__ent.
I further believe Ted Cruz is the guy to right the ship if it is possible.
Well, if the Framers intended “natural born citizen” to mean something other than “citizen at birth,” they failed to leave evidence.
“Obama” isn’t even a citizen. He’s an illegal alien with a crudely forged birth certificate that carries the typefaces of six different typewriters.
I’ll vote for Ben.
Constitutional rule of law is dead. Either we grab power any way we can or the muzzies / perverts / commies will.
Neither of his parents were American citizens, unlike Senator Cruz, so far as I can tell from researching it. How do you figure he’s eligible?
Why not? We got 0bama didn’t we?
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