"It is not necessary that a man should be born in this country, to be 'a natural born citizen.' It is only requisite that he should be a citizen by birth, and that is the case with all the children of citizens who have ever resided in this country, though born in a foreign country."
- James Bayard, A Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (1833)
This was part of Bayard's discussion of qualifications to be President and Presidential eligibility.
Bayard's exposition of the Constitution was read and approved by the Great Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall, by the legendary Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and by the famous Chancellor James Kent, as well as other legal experts of the early United States.
Not one single person ever said he was wrong about his understanding of what "natural born citizen" meant.
Its very Simple.
Ted Cruz is a US citizen. No one disputes that. What is at issue is if he is a Natural Born Citizen.
Hundreds of lower courts have ruled on the definition and meaning of NBC. The Supreme Court has upheld those rulings by not overriding them. Congress and the 50 States have not challenged those rulings.
This is a settled issue. A US citizen is a NBC. And no matter what the Constitution says or meant.....
Arthur, McCain, Obama, Cruz, whoever - whatever. All eligible to be the US prez.
We tend to eat our own sometimes... and it sucks.
The dems sit and laugh.
Cruz is a Good Man.
Over and over I repeat that as to such a quotation it is explicit as to children of “ CITIZENS”. Cruz was not a child of “CITIZENS” as his father was a citizen of Cuba with some kind of Castro connection. I’ll also throw in that Cruz was born in Canada and as such does not satisfy a requirement for place of birth to fill out a complete ‘natural born citizen’. As much as I admire Cruz today for his political stands and judgements, I as vet who fought in WWII for the life of our Constitution can not and will not betray my Constitutional beliefs for expediency of politics.