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Canadian Born Gov. Jennifer Granholm Was Naturalized In 1980. When Did Ted Cruz Naturalize?
Cold Case Posse Supporter | July 21, 2013 | Cold Case Posse Supporter

Posted on 07/21/2013 5:34:04 PM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter

Since Canadian born Ted Cruz has emerged on the scene in Washington as a future presidential candidate for 2016, attention has turned to whether he is Constitutionally eligible for Article 2 Section 1, the presidential qualification clause. This is what we know. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Many say that disqualifies him to be eligible for the presidency. Enter former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I came across an interview she did with Fox News's Chris Wallace in February of 2010. During the interview Wallace brought up the fact that since she was born in Canada, she wasn't eligible to be president. Here is the transcript:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/21/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-future-gop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529

"GRANHOLM: No, I’m totally focused this year on creating every single job I can until the last moment. December 31st at midnight is when I’ll stop. So I have no idea what I’m going to do next, but I’m not going to run for president. I can tell you that.

WALLACE: Yes, that’s true. We should point out Governor Granholm is a Canadian and cannot run for president.

GRANHOLM: I’m American. I’ve got dual citizenship.”

With that said, I went to the biography of Jennifer Granholm and found that she was born to one American citizen and is indeed a dual Citizen who became 'NATURALIZED' as a U.S. Citizen in 1980 at the age of 21. Now this raises a question. How can a naturalized U.S. Citizen become president of the United States?

Continued below.


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Kentucky; US: Michigan; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; canada; certifigate; congress; corruption; electionfraud; florida; jennifergranholm; kentucky; mediabias; michigan; naturalborncitizen; obama; randsconcerntrolls; teaparty; tedcruz; texas; vanity; voterfraud
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To: RWGinger

I’ve cited the law, 8 U.S.C. § 1401(g), which you then cite back claiming it makes Cruz eligible - it’s codified naturalization law!

Cruz is a U.S. Citizen at birth by statute. He is a naturalized citizen.


261 posted on 07/22/2013 9:36:11 AM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: RWGinger

“Senator Ted Cruz was a U.S. Citizen at birth period”

Yes he is a U.S. Citizen but to be president it takes more than being a U.S. Citizen, it takes a natural born Citizen.

See here the presidential clause:

[No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President]; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

According to the presidential clause, the only time a Citizen could become president was only at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Ted Cruz doesn’t pass the eligibility test since as you admitted, he is a U.S. Citizen.


262 posted on 07/22/2013 9:36:28 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
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To: Ray76
Derivative citizenship, the situation where a person born abroad acquires U.S. citizenship through their parents, is naturalization.

All sounds good but then the Naturalization Act of 1790 says this...


263 posted on 07/22/2013 9:46:37 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Ray76
Derivative citizenship, the situation where a person born abroad acquires U.S. citizenship through their parents, is naturalization.

All sounds good but then the Naturalization Act of 1790 says this...


264 posted on 07/22/2013 9:46:38 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

Please cite a US Legal source that defines ‘natural born” and a LEGAL definition that defines it in such a way as to exclude anyone born to only 1 US born parent.

Like it or not there is not one which is why we ended up with that POS 0dumbo


265 posted on 07/22/2013 9:49:38 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: RWGinger

I was responding to a posting to me on my computer by you dated July 22,2013 @6:51 pm. I have to believe you have directed a posting to me contrary to your claim.


266 posted on 07/22/2013 9:50:09 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: FreeReign

Yes, derivative citizenship by naturalization statute is naturalization. Is there a point you are trying to make?


267 posted on 07/22/2013 9:50:56 AM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: MamaTexan
(What really boggles my mind is people making the case for natural born-ness by erasing the existence of one of the parents.)

LOL. You're mind is easily boggled.

Read this...


268 posted on 07/22/2013 9:51:29 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Does this act apply to Cruz?


269 posted on 07/22/2013 9:52:04 AM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: Ray76

Read the part where is mentions “natural born”.


270 posted on 07/22/2013 9:52:34 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: noinfringers2

You are correct
MY error


271 posted on 07/22/2013 9:53:28 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: FreeReign

Does this act apply to Cruz?


272 posted on 07/22/2013 9:54:01 AM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: FreeReign

has the naturalization Act of 1790 been updated since then?
If it has been updated which standards or policies are in effect?
Those from 1790 or from more current?


273 posted on 07/22/2013 9:55:28 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: FreeReign
LOL. You're mind is easily boggled.

And you're easily amused, apparently.

I expect it from historical writings, but my reference was to people TODAY (guess you missed that part) who want to wipe out half of a child's heritage.

274 posted on 07/22/2013 10:00:56 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as defined by the Law of Nature, not a 'person' as defined by the laws of Man)
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter; RWGinger

“All that means is Cruz is a citizen by statute, but not a natural born Citizen by natural law.”

Alexander Hamilton told us specifically where to look for the meaning of terms in the Constitution. In a 1795 legal brief on carriage taxes (direct and indirect taxes), Hamilton begins by saying it is “a matter of regret that terms so uncertain and vague in so important a point are to be found in the Constitution.”

And he finishes the brief by saying, “... where so important a distinction in the Constitution is to be realized, it is fair to seek the meaning of terms in the statutory language of that country from which our jurisprudence is derived.”

Under English Common Law the children of aliens born in England were natural born subjects and under English statutory laws the children of English subjects born in foreign countries were also natural born subjects.

Under Hamilton’s guidance I would conclude that Senator Cruz is a natural born citizen.


275 posted on 07/22/2013 10:02:34 AM PDT by 4Zoltan
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To: FreeReign; MamaTexan; Ray76

Free, you’re either being dishonest here or you missed the Naturalization Act of 1795 which deleted the words “natural born”.

“SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, that the children of persons duly naturalized, dwelling within the United States, and being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of such naturalization, and 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. Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend on persons whose fathers have never been resident of the United States. No person heretofore proscribed by any state, or who has been legally convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain during the late war, shall be admitted as foresaid, without the consent of the legislature of the state in which such person was proscribed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, that the Act, intitled, “An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization,” passed the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, be, and the same is hereby repealed. “


276 posted on 07/22/2013 10:02:41 AM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: MamaTexan
And you're easily amused, apparently.

You rely too easily on throw away lines...apparently.

I expect it from historical writings, but my reference was to people TODAY (guess you missed that part) who want to wipe out half of a child's heritage.

You missed the point. The act clearly documents the founders and their colleagues "wiping out half of a child's heritiage".

277 posted on 07/22/2013 10:05:24 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

You neglect the fact that in 1790 the wife’s citizenship was derivative through the husband. In 2013 this is not the case.

The claim that “wiping out half of a child’s heritage” in 1790 is comparable to “wiping out half of a child’s heritage” in 2013 is ridiculous.


278 posted on 07/22/2013 10:14:48 AM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: FreeReign

That Naturalization Act of 1790 was repealed in 1795.


279 posted on 07/22/2013 10:15:15 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
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To: FreeReign
The act clearly documents the founders and their colleagues "wiping out half of a child's heritiage".

Ohhhh, the horror. You do realize that a woman had so little legal standing that she couldn't even RUN for the office of President during that time, don't you?

280 posted on 07/22/2013 10:16:39 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as defined by the Law of Nature, not a 'person' as defined by the laws of Man)
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