"Second, I am terrified that if we don't get this cleared up right now, if Ted Cruz does become the nominee, the Democrats will cherry-pick which court or election board they will petition to have him declared to be ineligible in September or October," Joyce continued.
It's sad that he states only partisan political reasons for his challenge.
At the Constitutional Convention, John Jay, who later co-authored the Federalist Papers and became the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, suggested to George Washington that a strong check was needed against the possibility that anyone with divided loyalties could ever attain the office of Commander-in-Chief. And so, the natural born citizen requirement for the presidency was added to the Constitution, without debate. And this was in a convention in which virtually EVERYTHING was debated, ad finitum. This was simply not even debatable to the framers, because the wisdom of it was so obvious.
Those who advocate the further weakening of the original meaning of this absolute requirement - which is two citizen parents, with the child being born on our soil - are not only weakening the Constitution, they are potentially weakening our national security, in a way that could prove to be disastrous to the republic. The office of the presidency of the United States remains the most powerful position in the world, militarily. That much power in the hands of someone with attachments to a foreign nation is extremely dangerous, to put it mildly.
Has the Barack Hussein Obama mal-administration taught us nothing?
Tell me, why did the birthers not make this argument until AFTER Obama was elected? The "two citizen parents" argumet made no appearance on FR until December 8, 2008.
Yet, the whole world was aware that Obama's father was a Kenyan and he had only one citizen parent. Given there are probably several million lawyers, experienced jurists, political consultants and observers, not to mention self-appointed constitutional experts, why did NOBODY broach the "two-citizen-parent" requirement until AFTER Obama's election?
Could it be because everybody who actually knew the rules knew better...???