Open request to Senator Cruz

[big bad easter bunny]

The Constitution requires that for you to be eligible to be president, both of your parents must be naturally born citizens. You do not meet that qualification, if I am wrong please straiten me out. If you get the nomination I promise you the democrats will do what the republicans are too scared to do.

Dear Ted I think you are awesome but we all need to know the answer to this.

[rarestia]

I second this. I love Cruz very much for the cause, but the Dems will have no qualms opening this can of worms in the lead up to the elections.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*Sniff*Sniff*

You haz a smell.

[golux]

McCain was subjected to a congressional hearing on the issue. Obama was subjected to an obviously photoshopped COLB. (Don't you dare comment on the issue, hateful racist "BIRTHER!"

[CodeToad]

“You do not meet that qualification, if I am wrong please straiten me out.”

Sounds like you already made up your mind and just want to pick a fight because you know we, not Cruz, will answer you on this forum.

IBTZ

[SoConPubbie]

The Constitution requires that for you to be eligible to be president, both of your parents must be naturally born citizens.

NO, it does not!

Please provide the relevant sections of the U.S. Constitution, or it's amendments, that clearly and unambiguously define "Natural Born" as requiring two U.S. Citizens at birth.

Lacking that, Please provide the relevant sections of U.S. Federal Law that clearly and unambiguously define "Natural Born" as requiring two U.S. Citizens at birth.

Lacking that, Please provide the relevant rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court that clearly and unambiguously define "Natural Born" as requiring two U.S. Citizens at birth.

You won't because you can't because they don't exist anywhere except in your mind and in sources that are not legal or constitutional in nature.


CRUZ or LOSE!

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

[taxcontrol]

Once again this miss information raises it’s ugly head. Therefore the facts will be presented to once again put this to rest.

The US Constitution specifically enumerates (Article 1 Section 8) the CONGRESS with the power to determine who is a citizen a birth (natural born citizen) and who requires naturalization. One of the firsts acts of Congress was to establish that a child born to a US Citizen was in fact, naturally born as a US Citizen even if beyond the lands of the US.

The current will of Congress is expressed in Title 18 Section 1401 by which Sen Cruz is a citizen at birth via the qualification of his mother who was a US Citizen.

[big'ol_freeper]

on

[PoloSec]

You worry about nothing, pay attention, as far as dems opening worm cans; every time dems, Rino’s, and faux conservatives opens a can of worms; Cruz opens a can of Whoop Azz!

[SoConPubbie]

You’ve been added to the Ted Cruz Ping List!

[VerySadAmerican]

Then you’re saying Obama is eligible because his mother was a citizen.

If that’s correct, why was Obama and his team doing everything they could to come up with proof he was born in Hawaii?

As for Cruz, wasn’t he born in Canada and wasn’t his parents non U.S. Citizens? Just asking.

[SoConPubbie]

If that’s correct, why was Obama and his team doing everything they could to come up with proof he was born in Hawaii?

Who cares?

Please provide the relevant sections of the U.S. Constitution that clearly and unambiguously define "Natural Born" as requiring two U.S. Citizens at birth.

Lacking that, Please provide the relevant sections of U.S. Federal Law that clearly and unambiguously define "Natural Born" as requiring two U.S. Citizens at birth.

Lacking that, Please provide the relevant rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court that clearly and unambiguously define "Natural Born" as requiring two U.S. Citizens at birth.

You won't because you can't because they don't exist anywhere except in your mind and in sources that are not legal or constitutional in nature.


CRUZ or LOSE!

[big'ol_freeper]

That you again Hilary?

[SoConPubbie]

As for Cruz, wasn’t he born in Canada and wasn’t his parents non U.S. Citizens? Just asking.

His father wasn't a US Citizen but his mother was.

[chajin]

please straiten me out

Perhaps a straitjacket would help straiten?

[big bad easter bunny]

So far Ted hasn’t answered but you guys sure are fun.

[SoConPubbie]

So far Ted hasn’t answered but you guys sure are fun.

Ted is too busy to answer, he's too busy saving the country.

Besides, if you had half a brain, you'd already would know the answer to the question posted given the information posted on this thread.

[John Valentine]

The Constitution specifies that the President must be a Natural Born Citizen, but does not go on to elaborate, as it does not elaborate on many other then commonly understood terms of art. There is no doubt whatsoever in my own mind precisely what the Founders meant by the term, but guess what? I’m not part of whatever deliberative process might exist now or in the future to clarify the issue.

As to your specific points: No term or provision in the Federal Code can serve to amend the Constitution or to provide binding definitions of its terms of art. If the Federal Code could be so used, the Constitution would have already been redefined virtually out of existence.

A Supreme Court decision on the matter would help, but we are not likely to see one anytime soon.

So what we are left with is the reality of a serving President who under the most generous of interpretations would not qualify as a Natural Born Citizen under my log held understanding of the term, and that reality is likely to remain the precedent for generations.

The sad truth is that statute law has been so elevated as to now tower above Natural Law and any old statutory citizenship will be considered “natural born” so long as it confers the citizenship at birth, and not later, as for example, was my son’s, for the birth took place outside the United States, and hence his citizenship was conferred by force of statute. Is he eligible to serve as President?

The Department of State sure didn’t say so in the pamphlet they gave me back in 1977 explaining the terms under which his citizenship was granted. In fact they went out of their way to deny the possibility.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Cruz is a brilliant legal scholar. If he couldn’t run, don’t y’all think he might KNOW this ?

Sheesh!