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CATO Institute: Yes, Ted Cruz Can be President
CATO Institute ^ | Aug 26, 2013 | By Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow In Constitutional Studies, Cato

Posted on 08/30/2013 12:02:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: Jim Robinson
If Ted Cruz decides to run for the Presidency and he appears to be the strongest conservative running, I will support him to the hilt.

Amen to that!!

481 posted on 08/31/2013 10:19:54 PM PDT by nutmeg (Rest in Peace, FReeper Extraordinaire Doctor Raoul...)
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To: edge919

I see no evidence that the Founders changed their mind in Article II.


482 posted on 08/31/2013 10:31:29 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Sun

Who said anybody changed their mind?? They wrote a short-term provision into Article II. Do you think that the provision of being a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution is still in effect today??


483 posted on 08/31/2013 10:36:21 PM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919
If Cruz does nor admit that he is not a NBC then, after he is nominated, I predict the dems and the left stream media will have a field day.... We need to be prepared for the following scenario... Typical cnn talking head discussion.... (SARC)

Left wing talking head... "your guy Ted Cruz is not even eligible"

Conservative guy... """Neither was Obama !!!"""

Left wing talking head... " Oh another birther... Where is your tin foil hat Ha Ha HA... Everybody knows Obama was born in Hawaii!!! Your guy was not even born in the United States!!! Ha HA HA"""

Conservative guy... "But But But"

CNN Host... " We need to cut this conversation short for now However, it is very interesting that after 8 years of fringe republicans claiming Obama was foreign born they now present a candidate who was not even born in the USA.""""

Conservative guy... "But that is not accurate"

CNN Host interrupts... "Sorry we need to go. Next segment after words from our sponsor will be our panel discussion addressing the issue ,,,, child abuse in the tea party.....

We'll be right back""""

484 posted on 08/31/2013 10:37:38 PM PDT by Constitution 123 (Knowledge is I forgot wh but to Obots, ignorance is bliss.)
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To: SuzyQueIN; All
Obama isn’t natural born and neither is Cruz.

I agree. Unless somebody can show me respectable historical materials which indicate that Cruz is NBC, I will reluctantly support him if Obama guard dog Fx News chooses Cruz as its poster child to win Republican nomination.

485 posted on 08/31/2013 10:41:50 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Constitution 123
This is pretty simple.

Left wing talking head... "your guy Ted Cruz is not even eligible"

"That's right. He has the same foreign-father problem Obama had. Plus the Supreme Court admitted such children are not eligible for office even if they can prove they were born in the U.S."

Left wing talking head... "But But But"
486 posted on 08/31/2013 10:51:22 PM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919

I understand your argument but unfortunately it wont fly in the media. The left wing will simply ignore what you say and keep repeating that Cruz, unlike Obummer, was foreign born. The target of this will not be to convince us who are informed but to simplify the issue into a talking point for the unwashed. (Alinsky)


487 posted on 08/31/2013 11:05:54 PM PDT by Constitution 123 (Knowledge is I forgot wh but to Obots, ignorance is bliss.)
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To: Constitution 123
I understand your argument but unfortunately it wont fly in the media. The left wing will simply ignore what you say and keep repeating that Cruz, unlike Obummer, was foreign born.

Which didn't seem to be a problem for McCain, which can also be pointed out. But the idea is not to defend Cruz, but that both Cruz and Obama are ineligible. The reasons that make Cruz ineligible are the same for Obama.

488 posted on 08/31/2013 11:17:03 PM PDT by edge919
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To: Tennessee Nana
If Ted Cruz runs and is own nominee I will gladly get behind him and encourage others to also...

Does that mean that if the choice in your primary is between Christie and Cruz, that you would feel duty bound to vote for Christie?

489 posted on 08/31/2013 11:22:31 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: edge919
The dems wanted McCain to be the republican candidate so much that they sponsored a senate resolution declaring him natural born....Both democratic sponsors of the resolution justified McCain's natural born status by stating the following ....

Senator Leahy>>>>>

“Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” .

“I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate.”

Senator Chertoff>>>>

“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,”

Chew on that

490 posted on 08/31/2013 11:30:18 PM PDT by Constitution 123 (Knowledge is I forgot wh but to Obots, ignorance is bliss.)
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To: Constitution 123

What about it?? You were asking how to respond in the media regarding Cruz. The media isn’t going to go into detail about what makes a difference between McCain and Cruz. If they do, then they open up Obama to the same flaw that Cruz has, as I’ve already said.


491 posted on 08/31/2013 11:38:08 PM PDT by edge919
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To: P-Marlowe

If Cruz is the most conservative candidate, at this point, I will support him.... It is a matter of survival.... But my eyes will be wide open... I will not take the position that he is natural born... I will choose not to engage... </:-)


492 posted on 08/31/2013 11:39:19 PM PDT by Constitution 123 (Knowledge is power but to Obots, ignorance is bliss.)
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To: edge919
"""...You were asking how to respond in the media regarding Cruz. The media isn’t going to go into detail about what makes a difference between McCain and Cruz.""""

Yes they will. They will say that Ted Cruz was foreign born and Obama was not. AND that we are hypocrites for making eligibility an issue in the first place. They will just dismiss your argument about the fathers.... Watch.... and the lame stream media will assist them.

493 posted on 08/31/2013 11:54:06 PM PDT by Constitution 123 (Knowledge is power but to Obots, ignorance is bliss.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Yes. By the 1790’s law, it is arguable that even Rafael Cruz was a US citizen able to pass along US citizenship to his children. I’m betting a good lawyer could demonstrate, by using the processes current in the 1790s about swearing to any magistrate anyplace on the frontier after 2 years of residing in a state, that Cruz Sr. had appeared and indicated his intent.


494 posted on 09/01/2013 3:20:11 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

Question! What/where is the 1790 law that would make a Cuban citizen in the 1900s a USA citizen automatically?


495 posted on 09/01/2013 3:41:11 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: edge919

Of course the clause is still in effect, it has not been altered or abolished via the only means available to alter or abolish it. There has been no Constitutional Amendment affecting that clause.

As to the existence of any individual to whom that clause may apply, there are no longer any who are known to exist. He or she would certainly have had to be born before the conclusion of the Revolutionary War and quite possibly before that war began, in order for that clause to have applicability.

Barring time travel becoming science fact rather than science fiction, or a US citizen having reached the truly astounding advanced age of 238 years, unheard of outside the Old Testament, they’re all long since turned to dust, in this world at least.


496 posted on 09/01/2013 3:47:11 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: noinfringers2
The first Congress passed a Nationality Act in that year, declaring that individuals born to a US citizen father (which really meant US citizen parents, since wives derived citizenship from their husbands at that time and continued to do so under US law until 1922 I believe) “beyond sea” were to be regarded as natural-born citizens.

Relying upon this Act can be problematic, since such a declaration via Nationality Act only existed for five years, being rescinded and replaced in 1795, with language identical save the removal of the critical phrase “natural-born,” meaning that by law individuals born “beyond sea” ie in a foreign land to a US citizen father with certain residency restrictions were to be regarded as “citizens.”

That the 1790 Act existed at all does speak to Original Intent however, since the first Congress was largely comprised of Founders. I've taken the existence of it to mean that the Founders did not originally intend to preclude Presidential eligibility to all individuals born to a citizen father abroad.

I've also taken the 1795 Act that replaced it to mean that a blanket attempt to do so was a problem. I believe that was a result of jurisdictional claims in the form of foreign citizenship upon children born with the geographic territories of nations following “jus soli” law.

Others have pointed out that Congress was constrained by the Constitution upon the matter, limited to the creation of a uniform set of naturalization laws across the Several States.

497 posted on 09/01/2013 4:07:22 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: noinfringers2; P-Marlowe

Read the 1790 law and look at the very non-specific way it refers to the father simply residing in the USA.

Then look at the very loose methodology around the nation, and particularly in western Viginia, Pennsylvania, etc. — the frontier — regarding fulfilling any citizenship requirements. It called for simply swearing before any magistrate, any place, any time.


498 posted on 09/01/2013 4:07:30 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
It's possible that the senior Cruz could be regarded as having thrown off any allegiance he may have had to the former Cuban nation under Batista, by virtue of having taken arms up against it and ultimately expatriating. It's a stretch, however, to assume that any formal renunciation was made by him before the law, in a state or federal courthouse.

Prove that he did do this and you're a long way toward resolving any doubt regarding the existence of internationally accepted claims of jurisdiction by Cuba upon children of the senior Cruz.

Everybody has been so caught up, looking for “the” definitive rule or law, when it's been reasonably clear from various courts that the answer is, it depends. There are doubts regarding certain circumstances of birth, however these doubts can be resolved, in the affirmative or in the negative. Birth circumstance varies widely from one individual to the next. A single law covering them all was not feasible.

Eligibility was clearly to be determined on a case by case basis, for those in a position of doubt. The only individuals for whom there was and is no doubt, are those born under the full jurisdiction of the United States, to citizen parents. There is no other avenue possible for a foreign jurisdiction to make any internationally recognized legal claim of jurisdiction upon such individuals. Others not born in this circumstance can be found to be free of foreign jurisdictional claims, but it just isn't clear cut.

499 posted on 09/01/2013 4:49:39 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Diego1618; omniscient; BlackElk
Natural born = two citizen parents.... born where ever; "Native born = born within the territorial limits of the country to non-citizen parents or born abroad to one citizen parent; Naturalized = Citizenship by statute. Three types.....always has been!

FWIW..............I think Ted Cruz would be a magnificent President. He's a magnificent Senator....already! But.....he is not a Natural Born Citizen. So what? Neither is the clown who sits there now!

I believe a precedent has been set."

I agree with all of the above! (Though Allen West and Sarah Palin are favorites of mine as well).

I have a question that I have been attempting to get answered and I get no response. That question is: If a Canadian woman marries an American man on American soil, and they have children - are those children American because they were born here? Or are they Canadian because of their mother's Canadian citizenship?

And, FWIW, even though I still believe Cruz has questionable eligibility, I love the man and will support him 100% if he is our nominee. I agree with Diego 1618: A precedent has been set. Congress has chosen to do nothing about Obama's ineligibility, and that has opened a pandora's box

500 posted on 09/01/2013 5:19:02 AM PDT by sneakers
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