So the bottom line is that Ted Cruz *is* a U.S. citizen, and therefore eligible to run for President?
Not nit-picking here, I'm just trying to get it straight...
Be good if he was--get someone to tell us how he complied with which citizenship at birth statute.
Not nit-picking here, I'm just trying to get it straight...
Be good if he was--get someone to tell us how he complied with which citizenship at birth statute.
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There's the crux of the issue.
Assuming Cruz was born in Canada, to a Cuban national father and an American citizen mother, Cruz would be Canadian and possibly a US citizen if his mother meet the requirements to pass citizenship to Ted set by Congress at the time.
Key point there. Congressional law, at the time.
Congress only has the Constitutional power of setting naturalization laws.
This means, if Ted Cruz is a US Citizen, he is so because of the naturalization laws in place at the time.
He is, then, a naturalized citizen at birth.
Since naturalized citizens are not "natural born Citizens," he's not eligible.
It's interesting to note, that the oath for naturalized citizens of the US requires them to "... hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen."
In the eyes of US law, those that become naturalized citizens by oath are not allowed to be dual citizens/nationals. Yet, a citizen at birth (naturalized or by 14th Amendment), can be a dual national and many here believe (unlike myself) that a "natural born Citizen" may also be a citizen of a foreign country.
Quite the contradiction.