“stating that “the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States” while retaining the same residency restrictions as the 1790 act.[22]
True, but a Naturalization Act cannot amend the Constitutional requirements to be president.
“considered as citizens”, but it does not specify “natural born”, used in the Constitution along with other exclusionary criteria (age, residence), which means, of course, that merely being a citizen is not necessarily “natural born”.
When McCain was running, Congress felt it necessary to publish something that declared McCain was eligible to run. No one questioned that he was a citizen at the time.
If Congress passed a law stating that “infringed” no longer means what it has always meant, that still would not change its Constitutional meaning.
I agree. They specifically removed the “natural born” part, five years later.
“When McCain was running, Congress felt it necessary to publish something that declared McCain was eligible to run. No one questioned that he was a citizen at the time.”
That’s true. McCain had two American citizens for parents. And his father was in our military, so even though he really didn’t meet the natural born citizenship meaning, Congress passed the resolution. (Maybe in preparation for an Obama run.)
Obama gives us a phony birth certificate and Republicans roll over and play dead. My thoughts are that Obama was born in Hawaii and may even have two American parents, one being a pedophile communist, Frank Marshall Davis. He is either hiding that or the fact that he was adopted by his Indonesian step-father or both. We never got to see his passport.
If anyone thinks the Dems will roll over and play dead, they are dreaming. They may even want Cruz so they can challenge his eligibility. Alan Grayson is an idiot as we all know, but he is just the first one that will be making the claim to Cruz’ eligibility. The Dems will go after Cruz in a group. Unlike the birthers. We only had Orly making any serious attempts in the courts.
The difference with Cruz and Obama, not counting whatever Obama is hiding, is that Obama officially was born in Hawaii (on the phony birth certificate) while Cruz was born in Canada, has a foreign born father, who had Canadian citizenship and ran a business in Canada. I don’t know how long he ran the business, but Cruz spent at least his first four years in Canada. And his father only became an American citizen in 2005. Most people believe he was fighting against Castro, but he was actually fighting against Batista who was an American ally at the time.
Also Cruz did not give up his dual citizenship until recently. He said his mother told him he did not need to do anything. He is a lawyer and I would have thought he would check on this for himself.