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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not so, I am correct.


24 posted on 05/21/2013 10:11:21 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
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To: Perdogg

He’s an anchor baby, which is a horse of a different color.


30 posted on 05/21/2013 10:21:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: Perdogg

Quote the section of the 14th amendment that mentions natural born citizens. I won’t hold my breath, because it is not there.

There are at least two classes of citizens: Born and naturalized. Anyone born on US soil (and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which excludes foreign diplomats) is a US citizen at birth. Is that the same thing as a natural born citizen? In some legal theories, yes. A citizen at birth is a natural born citizen. All other citizens are naturalized.

Some legal theories recognize a third category, someone who is a citizen at birth but not a natural born citizen. They will quote Vattel and Minor v. Happersett and US v. Wong Kim Ark, which address the question in passing and not as part of the ruling, but SCOTUS has never ruled directly on the question. Some theorize further that only the child of two citizen parents, regardless of location of birth, is a natural born citizen.

Whether Ted Cruz was a citizen at birth, born on foreign soil to one US citizen and one non-citizen parent, would depend on US immigration laws at the time of his birth (and in no way on Canadian citizenship laws). If he was a citizen at birth, whether he was a natural born citizen is an issue that will be debated on Free Republic long after everyone reading this is dead.


33 posted on 05/21/2013 10:24:30 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Perdogg
Not so, I am correct.

Only in the minds of people who do not know better.

86 posted on 05/21/2013 11:20:07 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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