this fact of Cruz having to denounce his Canadian citizenship at all is troubling..
this means he DID indeed have citizenship other than American...
In 1970 when he was born I doubt if the USA or Canada allowed DUAL CITIZENSHIP which Cruz would have to hold if he wanted to claim he was an American from birth...
To be POTUS he had to be born an American citizen...
To have Canadian citizenship to unload he had to have obtained it at some time...
He was born in Canada and lived there to the age of 4... so the Canadian citizenship was not something he just picked up as an adult...in fact he claims he never knew about it at all..
few of us know what happened up to age 4 unless we are told about the event etc or we remember for ourselves...since citizenship would not be something a 4year old would remember or understand, was this something that was never discussed by his parents at a later time throughout his entire life ??? even by his globe trotting parents ???
What nationality is annotated on his school records when he started kindergarten in (Texas ???)
Would his parents not have let him know he was a Canadian so he could take advantage of foreign student bennies in college as Obama did ??? or was a American status supposed or real more beneficial ???
The fact he felt obliged to DENOUNCE a loyalty and legal birth connection to a foreign nation creates more questions than it answers...
Not only obliged but it was necessary...that’s not the situation for a NBC American..
That means the Constitutional expert thought he had a legal entanglement that voided his eligibility to be POTUS..
Woe-be-tide I as a lessor student of the Constitution would argue that Cruz did not HAVE to do so..
I read a section the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1946 that was in effect at the time. It said that any child born in Canada was a natural born Canadian citizen unless the child was born to diplomats or other foreign government officials. As far as I know his parents were not government officials or diplomats. I have read that Canada did not recognize dual citizenship until they updated their Citizenship Act in 1977 or so. I do not think he is qualified, but that is just me.
No, it wasn't. He did it only to confuse lesser minds.