Is Ted Cruz Eligible for the Presidency?

The Daily Signal (Heritage Foundation) ^ | March 24, 2015 | Elizabeth Slattery

[Jeff Chandler]

Is Administrative Law Unlawful?

If Hamburger is correct, and all administrative law is actually unconstitutional, then things are not that simple. The following was written by a friend of mine. It is based on the premise of the book and bears consideration:

The constitution:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,

That second comma is very misleading. Take it out, and the meaning of the sentence is clear. At the time the constitution was written, it was common to toss commas in from time to time...they were flourishes; we don't do that so much these days.

Basically, most people believe the doctrine of jus sanguinis applies. In fact it does not.

Like The One Leader's many executive orders, the federal law that makes Cruz eligible for the presidency is unconstitutional. To be effective, it would have to be in the form of an amendment to the constitution, which it is not.

Most of this mess is the work of the courts, basically. They began screwing the goose with firearms restrictions intended to be enforced against black citizens only, continued with the Slaughter-House cases, expanded the nonsense under the New Deal (after FDR threatened them), grossly misinterpreted the interstate commerce clause, and lately bungled -- thanks to that asshole Roberts -- the Obamacare decision. The courts do not get it right every time.

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I would like to hear Mark Levin's views on this.

[COBOL2Java]

Oh look, you didn’t have to click the link.

Sarcasm is a foreign language to you, isn't it?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I can’t find any evidence that Ted Cruz even knows how to play golf. Surely that alone is enough to disqualify him?

As an aside, I don't have a problem with Obama spending so much time on the links. He can stay out there forever. The more time he spends playing golf, the less time he has to ruin America and Israel.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Any opinion rendered by a leftist on this subject is of no value.

Well, that goes without saying . . .

[raccoonradio]

>>American mother

Thought I read having an American mother qualifies.

Obama—qualified
Cruz—qualified

[RIghtwardHo]

Yes.

He is and so was Odimwit.

Anything else is conspiracy theory idiocy.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is he married to a tranny?

Heidi looks like a natural-born woman to me. Therefore, the LGBT crowd is lost to us.

[cripplecreek]

The media was sent to a maintenance shed today. LOL

http://twitchy.com/2015/03/28/white-house-drops-news-lid-on-presidents-golf-game-press-holes-up-in-maintenance-shed/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Either father or mother.

[central_va]

If a plane crashes on the US-Canada border where are the survivors buried?

[raccoonradio]

or:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/why_ted_cruz_is_constitutionally_qualified_to_be_president.html

>>And to eliminate doubt, Congress expressly passed a law saying children of Americans born outside America were in fact natural born Americans.

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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. That single-parent requirement has been amended several times, but under the law in effect between 1952 and 1986 — Cruz was born in 1970 — someone must have a citizen parent who resided in the United States for at least 10 years, including five after the age of 14, in order to be considered a natural-born citizen. Cruz’s mother, Eleanor Darragh, was born in Delaware, lived most of her life in the United States, and gave birth to little Rafael Edward Cruz in her 30s.

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So according to the Nationality Act of 1940, Ted Cruz, who was born outside America to one American parent, is clearly a natural born American, and he can clearly run for and hold the office of the presidency. I think this should be the end of this discussion.

[raccoonradio]

yup—thanks; also, I just saw a page on American Thinker which does say that as well (though I thought I read somewhere that as long as the mother is American...here, it could be either parent...) And I posted an excerpt.

[stanne]

Where’s the guy with the cigarette?

[sten]

asked and answered dozens of times.

[babygene]

“Obama—qualified Cruz—qualified”

Wasn’t there something about the age of the mother, assuming that Obama was born in Africa?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Where’s the guy with the cigarette?

The smoking nazis got to him.

[Sioux-san]

What about Anchor babies like Jindal and Rubio?

[Fresh Wind]

Aw, Jeez, not this smelly stuff again.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ineligible.

[stanne]

Good one.

I mean the ‘oh no not this s again’ guy