Posted on 02/23/2016 12:44:52 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
He can’t by a long shot.
And running on this as broadly as Cruz is, will just give the Dems the ammo they need to say Cruz wants to sell Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore to the highest bidder.
And besides few states are chomping at the bit to have to devote their tight budgets to manage parks that they CANNOT sell least they want the public on their case.
This will make Cruz look like a nut because he doesn’t know how to frame the issue to his advantage.
I don’t know about that one.
On the Meaning of "Natural Born Citizen"
Commentary by Neal Katyal & Paul Clement, Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of Law, Georgetown University
The Naturalization Act of 1790 expanded the class of citizens at birth to include children born abroad of citizen mothers as long as the father had at least been resident in the United States at some point. But Congress eliminated that differential treatment of citizen mothers and fathers before any of the potential candidates in the current presidential election were born. Thus, in the relevant time period, and subject to certain residency requirements, children born abroad of a citizen parent were citizens from the moment of birth, and thus are ânatural born Citizens.â
As recounted by Justice Joseph Story in his famous Commentaries on the Constitution, the purpose of the natural born Citizen clause was thus to âcut[] off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interpose[] a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections.â The Framers did not fear such machinations from those who were U.S. citizens from birth just because of the happenstance of a foreign birthplace. Indeed, John Jayâs own children were born abroad while he served on diplomatic assignments, and it would be absurd to conclude that Jay proposed to exclude his own children, as foreigners of dubious loyalty, from presidential eligibility.
While the field of candidates for the next presidential election is still taking shape, at least one potential candidate, Senator Ted Cruz, was born in a Canadian hospital to a U.S. citizen mother. Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a ânatural born Citizenâ within the meaning of the Constitution. Indeed, because his father had also been resident in the United States, Senator Cruz would have been a ânatural born Citizenâ even under the Naturalization Act of 1790.
Yup. Agree with him or he'll get revenge.
So you can go back 30 years to Sen Cruz's schoolmates both friend and foe and they will ALL tell you what a dedicated(obnoxious) conservative he was and is but Orange Gumby, a panoply of of 180 degree beliefs over that last 30 years, but SEN CRUZ is telling you just what you want to hear?
I’m trying to not say anything negative
about Cruz. Really. But it gets difficult.
But you did get the 'Cruz is a liar' meme in there so good for you.
I misread the article. Cruz is right.
Never mind.
After the Civil War, power shifted to the central government. No one challenged this takeover and the 16th and 17th amendments pretty much sealed the deal. There was no problem until the Clinton Crime Family and the Bush Crime Family started selling Federal Land to foreign interests.
Ad has been running constantly on TV here. Like we will believe it? Politicians have been telling us that for years.
Your post was bs based on bs like your multiple WSJ/NBC SC phoney baloney poll.
He changed his mind. Again.
Donald Trump: Don't hand federal lands to states
"I don't like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don't know what the state is going to do," Trump said during a talk with Field & Stream magazine earlier this week.
If this is reported correctly then I think Trump is on the wrong side of this discussion. We’ll see how it plays out.
NYS, Pa etc (the eastern states) did the same thing with any lands west of their present western boundaries....way back circa 1788.
Voted for GWB in 2000 primary; Reagan in 1980 primary. I have a poor track record for selecting winners. Expect to vote Cruz on March 1
Another lie if told enough times will be believed by the sheeple.
Ted publicly called McConnell a liar on the Senate floor. So, what would have been the cause of that? He and other Senators were lied to about that vote. A mistake was made and he owned up to it. Oh, you conviently forgot that one. Senate procedures seem to be fleeting tidbits when trumping up other candidates.
Garbage in Garbage out.
Trump’s actual words rather than the Narrative of the Uniparty and those pushing other candidates.
“Government should do public works & safety & little else
Common sense tell us that the two basic principles of governing should work anywhere they are applied. First: Get government out of activities it can’t do well. (A list of thing government doesn’t do well is a very long list.)”
“Second: Get government back in the business of providing for public convenience (transportation, public works) and safety (police and firefighters), and make sure it does so efficiently. Then judge its efforts by visible, definable results and fine-tune as needed.”
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p. 60 , Jul 2, 2000
Abolish Common Core and Return Control to the Local Level. Cut the Department of Education and the EPA
“Bring on the competition; tear down the union walls
Our public schools have grown up in a competition-free zone, surrounded by a very high union wall. Why aren’t we shocked at the results? After all, teachers’ unions are motivated by the same desires that move the rest of us. With more than 85% of their soft-money donations going to Democrats, teachers’ unions know they can count on the politician they back to take a strong stand against school choice.”
“Our public schools are capable of providing a more competitive product than they do today. Look at some of the high school tests from earlier in this century and you’ll wonder if they weren’t college level tests. And we’ve got to bring on the competition - open the schoolhouse doors and let parents choose the best school for their children.”
“Education reformers call this school choice, charter schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. I call it competition - the American way.”
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p. 80-81 , Jul 2, 2000
You're right...Cruz is a more convincing liar. His emotional 'out of the shadows' speech was totally convincing, even though he told us later it was only part of an elaborate ruse.
Sorry Ted....They have been State and federal lands forever. Nevada wasn’t a state until 1864 and most of it is a desert.
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