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| Office | Citizenship | Age | Residency (or years citizen) |
| Commander in Chief | natural born Citizen | 35 | 14 years resident |
| Senator | Citizen | 30 | 9 years a Citizen |
| Represantative | Citizen | 25 | 7 years a Citizen |
Sen. Ted Cruz - A native of Canada.
Born in a foreign country. [1]
Born with foreign citizenship. [2]
Born owing allegiance to that foreign country. [3][4]
Born a U.S. citizen due exclusively to his mother meeting the specific requirements in the congressional law in existence at the time of his birth. [5]
Foreign born Sen. Ted Cruz is a U.S. "citizen" by congressional statute.
Congress does not have the Constitutional authority to make laws determining who may be a "natural born Citizen."
Cruz is doing amazing work in the Senante, but he's no "natural born Citizen."
I'll stick with the likes of Rep. John Bingham and his definition of a "natural born Citizen" that was never contested in the House during the mid to late 1800's, over that of an opinion by Ilya Shapiro at the CATO institute.
Ted Cruz was born to a fully qualified American citizen working temporarily in Canada and is a natural born citizen and American patriot in every sense of the word. If he runs and he’s the strongest conservative running, I will support him 100%!! And I’m sure the majority of the grassroots tea party conservatives will too. Best get used to it. If the birthers go against Cruz, they will be allied with the GOP-e RINOs and the democrats against the grassroots. Good luck with that.
We don’t cotton to Tokyo Rove or the demoncrats around here.
Run, Ted, Run!!
For Senator and Representative you use the term “Citizen”. The Constitution uses the “Citizen of the United States”.
This is the general class that consists of both natural born and naturalized citizens.
Senator Cruz did not have to be naturalized.
The Founding Fathers’ original thinking on this issue was embodied in the Naturalization Act of 1790: “The children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens”.
The first major work of exposition of the Constitution was written by jurist, historian and confidant of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, William Rawle. President Washinton appointed William Rawle to be the first U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania.
Rawle wrote in his book “A View of the Constitution of the United States” (2nd Ed. 1829): “…he who was subsequently born a citizen of a state became at the moment of his birth a citizen of the United States. Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts whether the parents are citizens or aliens is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.”
And the current law of the land qualifies Senator Cruz as a natural born citizen: 8 U.S.C. § 1401: “The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years...”
You may find this interesting.
To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 October 1808Dear Sir
I Will Thank you to read the inclosed & send instructions to General Armstrong respecting Young Mr. Maclure. His Father you see was a Citizen since 1786 & himself born here. They are respectable merchants & I will be much obliged to you to do what they request. We have had a very hard struggle here to carry our members & secure to You the vote of this state, but the thing is done & I beg you to read what the President will shew You on this subject. I intend when the hurry & Bustle we are in is over to write to you particularly on this subject & shew you the inveteracy of the federalists against You but You had firm confidential friends who went every length for you, & in spite of every private or interested consideration. I have never known such a struggle & hear 200 Votes in the City were given more than ever was taken before. I shall write You much more fully soon & remain dear Sir With regard & affection Yours Truly
Charles Pinckney