Posted on 01/10/2016 7:36:03 AM PST by jimbo123
:: Cruz as a constitutional lawyer needs to be more serious in addressing this question ::
It is a campaign. Let Cruz and Trump be as serious about that as their campaign-efforts allow.
Keep in mind, the American electorate has LOWERED THE STANDARD with Obama being inaugurated without challenge.
“The Natural Born Citizen requirement in the Constitution implies that the requirement is higher for the POTUS than anyone else has to meet to be a ‘citizen’.”
Correct. The presidency is the only office that a naturalized citizen cannot hold. Is Ted Cruz a naturalized citizen? No.
He’ll never be able to clear it up to some partisans satisfaction. He’d best move on and not let it distract from the important stuff
The term ‘birther’ was concocted by Obama’s Alinsky comrades as a means of substituting mockery for rational, fact-based discussion. Interesting to see who is perpetrating the tactic.
Why does Rubio get a free ride on this issue? There is no way he is “natural born”. He fits the anchor baby description more than any other.
originalist.
Rep. John A. Bingham, who later became the chief architect of the 14th Amendments first section.
In the United States House on March 9, 1866 commenting upon Section 1992 of the Civil Rights Act, said that the Act was
simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution,
that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States
of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is,
in the language of your Constitution itself, a Natural Born Citizen.
“Personally, I don’t want Cruz ended for *this*. I want Trump to beat him fair and square and I hope that they can get along after.”
Facts never mattered in the discussion of Obama’s birth-related lies—and there were many. Neither will facts matter in this case. If Cruz wins, the Dems, backed by the MSM, will turn the issue into a never-ending three ring circus.
Cruz supporters are evidently of the opinion that if they can stop Trump and other conservatives from mentioning it, the questions/issue goes away. They could not be more mistaken.
"ALL the Acts of Congress are naturalization Acts as Congress has no need, or authority, to confer US citizen on a child born in the US when the child's parents (BOTH) are US citizens."
No more time anyone made a citizen via statute is not a natural born citizen (NBC) as NBC was understood in 1788.
“They did not include the words natural born citizen in that Act that repealed the 1790 Act.”
But the words, along with original intent, remain in the Constitution.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=071/llcg071.db&recNum=332
“every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen”
John A. Bingham chief architect of the 14th Amendment.
And that’s what an originalist believes (absent historical contradiction). The 14th Amendment means what it meant when enacted.
The professor is a bald-faced liar.
Why does he tell this specific lie?
Because Obama was NOT born “of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty”.
for later
The second point might be correct actually but the first is suspect I think. The idea of natural born simpy means you are a citizen at birth so I think that if they’d considered him a citizen then they’d have considered him a natural born citizen.
Donald Trump needs to get serious about answering the question if he was ever on Pedophile Island at the same time as Bill Clinton.
You might not. But they would.
Because, in 1790, the Founders in Congress voted for the very law that makes it so.
The 1790 law itself wasn’t the important part, it was the fact it contained a definition of natural born citizen. In the absence of any other definition, this is it.sent
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