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To: Vendome

“If Cruz can be born to an American Mother and a non-American father, outside of the country and not in a soveriegn territory or military base then he is not NBC.”

Got a legal citation for that? I do, and it says he is a natural born citizen:

8 USC § 1401 - Nationals and citizens of United States at birth:

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(d) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a national, but not a citizen of the United States.


53 posted on 08/30/2013 1:15:42 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad

Since you cited a Congressional law this is easy - not a natural citizen.

They depend on positive (vs. natural) law for citizenship.

Does everyone just want to strike the word natural from Article II, Section 1?

1401 describe a ‘born citizen’. That is only half the equation.


63 posted on 08/30/2013 1:34:51 PM PDT by bluecat6
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To: CodeToad
Got a legal citation for that? I do, and it says he is a natural born citizen:

8 USC § 1401 - Nationals and citizens of United States at birth:

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(d) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a national, but not a citizen of the United States.

"In any event, the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes."
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86757.pdf

Statutory citizenship does not automatically render one Constitutionally eligible for president.

77 posted on 08/30/2013 2:13:58 PM PDT by Rides3
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To: CodeToad

So you’re saying Obama is too legit to quit?


203 posted on 08/30/2013 6:15:27 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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