Last shred of respect for Ann gone.
She knows full well the answer to this:
“If Ted Cruz is a “natural-born citizen,” eligible to be president, what was all the fuss about Obama being born in Kenya? No one disputed that Obama’s mother was a U.S. citizen.”
According to immigration law over-written in 1986, a mother had to reside in the United States for five years past her fourteenth birthday for her foreign-born child to be a U.S. citizen at birth. Obama’s mom was only 18. His citizen rested on being born in the U.S.
Contrarily, Ted Cruz’ Mom was plenty old enough. He was a citizen at birth no matter where his Mom resided at the time.
By the way, notice in that Act what “Natural-born” citizen means: someone who is a citizen at birth. As Canadian statutory law, it certainly doesn’t establish precedent for U.S. Constitutional law, but it certainly shows what the ordinary meaning of a phrase which has passed out of common usage was.
Natural born does not mean citizen at birth and you know it.
The problem is if someone is going to be an originalist then they need to be one. So how easy it is for some to find prenumbras?
People are clearly UNABLE to understand SIMPLE law. ALL THAT MATTERS IS WHAT DID THE FRAMERS THINK NATURAL BORN MEANT AT THE TIME OF THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION?
Nothing else matters. Congress cannot ever change the meanings of words in the Constitution.
This is not hard to understand, yet many here simply cannot grasp the simplicity of this basic legal notion.
Sad.
Look at the Canadian statute that I posted in post #1. It clearly states that a Natural Born Canadian Citizen is someone that is born in Canada or on a Canadian ship. It doesn’t say anything about thing about being “someone who is a citizen at birth”. Canadian law is based on the same common law principles that US law is based on. A NBC is someone born in the country. period. Ted Cruz is a NBC of Canada, not the USA. By staying in this race, he is a walking talking affront to the constitution and I lose more and more respect for every day that he allows this charade to persist.