He is a constitutional conservative. I studied ConLaw for two semesters in law school, made law review, got my Illinois law license, and have litigated ballot access matters in Cook County, and I am persuaded that Cruz has a strong case for eligibility to run for President. The Constitution uses a term that is capable of more than one interpretation, depending on one’s view of the history of the document and the men that crafted it, their resources, their influences, etc. Cruz is doubtless one of those who believes, as I do, that the British common law was a central source of the constitutional language, that the founders did not draw as sharp a line between that common law and statutory refinements to it, and that the specific citizenship criteria of Vattell is nowhere written into the constitution and is therefore, at a minimum, debatable. That is a fair position. There are several cases that gum around the edges but none produces a brightline rule that will infallibly guide in the case of presidential eligibility. Under these adverse conditions, it is as right and constitutional for Cruz to assert his eligibility as it is for anyone else who might have a reasonable claim to NBC status.
Peace,
SR
Such as a child born to a Muslim father in Mecca, and a mother who is a citizen of the USA? The founders intended this? Oh my- pray tell...
Go ahead and show us some of your legal evidence that Natural Born Citizen means anything other than Native Born Citizen i.e. born within the jurisdiction of a particular sovereign.
I have not studied Constitutional Law, but I did go to citizenship classes prior to becoming naturalized, and had an excellent teacher, and it is my humble opinion I feel we must look at the big picture. If f’instance an American woman moved to the middle east, had a child by one of their fanatical types, and the child was raised with those beliefs, then that child, claiming statutory American citizenship, and happened to be well prepared and silver tongued, could gain the Presidency and harm the nation. Some would claim it has already happened. It’s a loophole that needs to be put before the Courts and closed. What are your feelings on Rubio, born here of alien parents (I don’t know if his parents arrived here legally or not from Cuba...some say they were escaping Castro’s Cuba, but others say that was after they were already here???)
Well there you go. No common sense required when emotions mean so much more.