When the clock strikes twelve, we'll cool off then, start jump'n that shark all over again. /s
Its too bad that the issue is unresolved. It can’t be wished away. We don’t resolve things with articles from liberal colleges — we actually resolve them with Notice and hearing before the courts and through an appeal process and then by SCOTUS.
Cruz has two options. 1. he can wait for the Democrats to take a judicial track that they control. ( hillary has absolute standing) or 2. he can move for a declaratory judgement and hope to fast track it. If he waits and is picked for vice president by Trump, Then he will be enjoined for two years from taking the oath. Once you take the oath, the issue is moot so he will be enjoined.
It is all well and good for us to express our opinions and desires but it doesn’t make a tinkers damn. Cruz should have seen this coming as inevitable and gone to the courts 9 months ago and it might be over but IT IS GOING TO THE COURTS if he ever gets any traction.
I see nothing more illogical in politics these days than people propagating the notion that the son of a foreign citizen could also simultaneously be a natural born citizen of the United States.
What on Earth do people think the purpose of the clause was? Filler?
Not entirely accurate. in the early years US citizen women could not bestow citizenship on children born abroad.
There have also been residency requirements for the US citizen to be able to bestow citizenship to their child at birth if born abroad.
It has been proven that Cruses mother had the appropriate residency requirement at the time of his birth to immediately bestow citizenship.
Now if we are to go by the one citizen parent argument think about this. A forty year old citizen of the US has lived here all his life. When he travels abroad he visits China and has sex with a woman in China and leaves and never sees the mother again. The baby grows up in China and raised as a loyal communist. How could this person have any allegiance to the United States? Yet some here believe this person to be a natural born citizen of the US and would be qualified for president.
do you think the founders would have agreed?
This stupid article has been written by someone who doesn’t know the difference between a citizen and a natural born citizen.Look up E. Vattel’s Law of Nations definition of Natural Born Citizen which the Constitutional Committee accepted on the advice of future Chief Justice John Jay.
Spreading stupid lies trying to make them accepted by people who do not know the facts is just another media practice leading this country downhill.
A Natural Born Citizen is one born of TWO Citizen parents, not just one. A citizen is by ONE parent being American.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 was ratified in 1791 and has never been changed nor modified.
Sorry, you are the one being illogical. I am still waiting for a clear and reasoned explanation of the difference between “citizen” and “natural born citizen”. They are categorically different from each other. Explain the difference.
BTW, no one is “attacking” his citizenship. This phrasing is a sure fire giveaway that a liberal wrote this.
Many of us are questioning his eligibility under the provisions of Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the US constitution, using sound constitutional, legal, and historical reasoning for doing so.
More like *hypocritical*.
Let’s see obama produce a birth certificate first.
We were taught a natural citizen had to be born on American Soil. I won’t touch these arguments. If Obama can be President anyone can.
natural born Citizen == illegal alien
There's a Harvard law review that explains it somewhere.
**hick**