[Jeff Winston]

Too bad he’s not eligible.

Sorry to disappoint those who would like to destroy possibly the best candidate conservatives have, but Cruz is eligible.

"It is not necessary that a man should be born in this country, to be 'a natural born citizen.' It is only requisite that he should be a citizen by birth, and that is the case with all the children of citizens who have ever resided in this country, though born in a foreign country."

- James Bayard, A Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (1833)

Bayard's exposition of the Constitution was read and approved by the Great Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall, by the legendary Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and by the famous Chancellor James Kent, as well as other legal experts of the early United States.

Not one single person ever said he was wrong about his understanding of what "natural born citizen" meant.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I agree 100% with promoting Cruz.

If he’s eligible, he can win.

If he somehow is found not to be, we win for having promoted him without any hesitation.

This is all good. Cruz 2016.

(Well, Palin too)

[Jeff Winston]

Incidentally, that quote was Bayard's discussion of Presidential eligibility.

[Tau Food]

I think that nine out of ten ordinary people will intuitively agree with Bayard. And, in the context of 2016, nearly all of the people who disagree will be those people who just want another gratuitous excuse to oppose Cruz because they oppose him for other reasons. Not one in a thousand will get themselves all tangled up in this Vattel baloney.

Ted Cruz - 2016

[noinfringers2]

I take it that ‘CitizenS’ refers to/means that both parents have to be ‘citizens’. Do you have a reference that Bayard did not mean such? All the judges and experts surely could/would have made any/some differentiation in writings you reference.