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CATO Institute: Yes, Ted Cruz Can be President
CATO Institute ^ | Aug 26, 2013 | By Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow In Constitutional Studies, Cato

Posted on 8/30/2013, 3:02:15 PM by Jim Robinson

"Argue it all you wish. But if he runs, this site will support him to the hilt. Those who get nasty about it and or attack us or our good patriotic conservative friends like Mark Levin or our very best grassroots conservative candidates may find they no longer have accounts here."

44 posted on 8/30/2013, 4:00:44 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)

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Is Ted Cruz a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as president? [Yes! And I support him! JimRob]

We can't have two standards on what constitutes a natural born citizen. Cruz will have to disclose whether his mother ever became a Canadian citizen or why he waited until last year to renounce his Canadian citizenship.

SCOTUS has never ruled on what is a natural born citizen as it applies to eligibility for the Presidency. Cruz claims his citizenship thru jus sanguinis as did McCain who had two US citizen parents. Obama has a dual claim presuming he was born in Hawaii, jus solis and jus sanguinis.

In the case of McCain, the Senate commissioned an opinion jointly written by Lawrence Tribe and Ted Olson to opine about McCain's eligibility to run for the Presidency. Cruz ought to do the same now to avoid problems later. If it looks like he might get the nomination, this issue will surface again in spades. An opinion from CATO institute is not good enough.