[biggredd1]

born on US soil to TWO CITIZEN parents. Try reading senate resolution #511.

[writer33]

The 14th Amendment makes it clear with "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" that citizenship in America is determined by jurisdiction and not geography. This is how John McCain was a natural born citizen while being born in the Panama Canal Zone — his father was serving in the military under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government. Ditto for my wife born in then-West Germany while her father was in the 101st Airborne. Cruz's mother was a natural born citizen, therefore she was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government when he was born in Canada. This makes Ted a natural born citizen, as at least three court cases in the past year have agreed as well as Congressional statute and all other judicial precedents.

[Nero Germanicus]

Nowhere in Senate Resolution 511 does it say that two U.S. Citizen parents are REQUIRED. The non-binding senate resolution merely acknowledges the fact that both of John McCain’s parents were U.S. citizens at the tine of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone.

The exact wording: “Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936: Now, therefore, be it:
That John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born Citizen under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States.”

If such a resolution is ever needed for Senator Cruz, a bi-partisan group of senators will co-sponsor it.