Constitution...we don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!
As we knew it would.
Good. Fanatics and lunatics lose one... As they always do.
Can we move on now?
translation: We’re not going to entertain that until after he’s actually won.
This has NOTHING to do with answering the question.
Maybe this will be good enough to quiet the Donald on this issue? Doubt it!
What a relief! I was worried that we would have to repeat the John McCain primaries all over again.
Surprise, surprise. And right in Obama’s backyard. We can’t let the citizenship of a first term Senator, Harvard constitutional lawyer with only a single American parent, a dual citizenship whose records are sealed impact that of another first term Senator, Harvard constitutional lawyer with only a single American parent, a dual citizenship whose records are sealed can we?
Any place that allowed the kenyan, who later renounced his already questionable "citizenship" to become Indonesian, and who attended college as a "Foreign Student", doesn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to Cruz.
The original definition is born here of citizen parents.
One is NATURALLY a US citizen when one cannot be anything else.
The new definition of simply being born a citizen, even if only on one’s mother’s side, makes every anchor baby and Winston Chruchill eligible.
That is not what the founders had in mind.
Right decision. Wrong reasoning.
Cruz is a NBC because his American citizen mother had sufficient time as a resident of the United States at the time of his birth.
OTOH, Obama's mother did not.
Under the board's faulty reasoning, it could be (incorrectly) argued that Cruz isn't an American citizen at all.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=083/llcg083.db&recNum=1040
... whereas it is claimed that such American citizens, with their descendants, are subjects of foreign states, owing allegiance to the governments thereof; and whereas it is necessary to the maintenance of public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed; Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officers of this government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of this government.
One can bring all the Supreme Court cases supporting their argument they want, however, unless those arguments are built upon this one fact of expatriation and the above law that is codified in Title 8, and the reason the US State Dept.’s hands were tied when it came to getting the dual Iranian-American citizens released from Iranian jails. Those people entered Iran on their Iranian passports, therefore, under the US law as well as the Iranian law, when they were arrested, they were arrested as Iranian citizens.
American citizens need to wake up to this fact of law and push your representatives in DC to shut down the ‘turning a blind eye’ to this law because it does matter, it is the fundamental glue that was to keep foreign intrigue from infiltrating our government from within. It is the fundamental glue that give the US State Dept. the legal standing in any foreign nation, to act upon the behalf of its citizens abroad, which is very clear in Sec 2 of the Act,
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all naturalized citizens of the United States, while in foreign states, shall be entitled to, and shall receive from this government, the same protection of persons and property that is accorded to native-born citizens in like situations and circumstances. This is not my opinion, this IS the LAW! And it is the LAW that ALL cases brought on this subject fail to address. Well, the court is not going to entertain that which is not put in front of them and THAT is where the majority of people fail in the courts, they fail to bring the case on the proper grounds!
a) someone born and living anywhere in the world, provided that child is to one American citizen parent,it is not the same as:
b) someone born on U.S. soil to American citizen parents.You may tell yourself that you can call them the same thing, but are not the same thing.
You may tell yourself that "a" is equal to "b" and identical in every respect, but they are not.
You may call these three couple's relationship a marriage, but two men together or two women together are not the same as a man and a woman together.
Aristotle is quoted as saying: "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
That's a nasty bad habit that we, the people, should break before it breaks US.
But we won't.
Instead, I suggest preparing for more "unintended" consequences.
Sad, but true that there are several citizen classes.
First Class - born in the US to two US citizens. Eligible for POTUS.
Second Class - born in the US to two registered immigrants, who were not naturalized at time of birth. ?? Eligible??
Third Class - born outside the US to one or two US citizens.
??Eligible??
Fourth Class - born outside the US - but a legal immigrant, and naturalized citizen adult - renouncing country of origin and swearing fealty to the US - serving in the US armed forces. Cannot be POTUS
Where is “Popular Grove?” There’s a Poplar Grove, IL, as in the tree. But “Popular Grove?”