[Paine in the Neck]

I once supported this - enthusiastically.

Then Cruz showed his hand by deciding that he was Constitutionally qualified to be President. I don’t want anyone on the bench who either 1. doesn’t understand what a Natural Born Citizen is, or, 2. is willing to twist the plain meaning of the Constitution for self-serving purposes.

Sorry. No Cruz.

[Political Junkie Too]

It amazes me that the Courts don't see what's in plain view in the Constitution.

Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Article I Section 2

The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states...

We the People gave ourselves the power to directly elect our representatives to the House of Representatives in the United States Congress. If you cannot vote for a Representative, then you are NOT We the People.

We the People "...ordain[ed] and establish[ed] this Constitution... in Order to... secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." It is clear that Ted Cruz's father could not vote for the House of Representatives, therefore he was not "We the People." This means that Ted Cruz is not the "Posterity" of "We the People."

The "natural born citizen" clause was meant to secure the presidency. It has the tighter requirement of "natural born citizen" in contrast to Congress which only required "citizen." In other words, "citizen" equaled "We the People," while "natural born citizen" equaled "Posterity of We the People."

Ted Cruz is not the Posterity of We the People, therefore he is not a natural born citizen. He is what Thomas Paine called "half a foreigner" in The Rights of Man (1791).

-PJ