Posted on 06/10/2014 7:11:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Canada-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has made good on a promise to renounce his birth country’s citizenship—doing so amid speculation he could make a run at the White House in 2016.
Spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said Cruz’s action became official May 14 and that Texas’ junior senator received written confirmation at his home in Houston on Tuesday. She said the tea-party-backed Republican “is pleased to have the process finalized.”
“Being a U.S. Senator representing Texas, it makes sense he should be only an American citizen,” Frazier said in an email. …
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If a person is prima facie constitutionally ineligible, how can he be made eligible by statute?
Wouldn't that take a constitutional amendment...???
I believe JRandom was correct. You should prepare a brief outlining your arguments against the constitutional ineligibility of Senator Cruz and file it as a vanity.
The SCOFRUS will take your case under advisement...
Free Republic has done this Cruz eligibility discussion before. He is eligible. Those who say otherwise simply have not understood the law. You might sincerely believe what you do, but you are sincerely wrong and you are injuring America’s best potential candidate.
Just trying to understand. Accepting the premise that there are only two methods of acquiring citizenship (1. being born "in" the United States and 2. naturalization "in" the United States), does a person born "outside" the United States to a United States citizen acquire citizenship through birth or naturalization?
Well said.
Well I am fully in his court at this point...count me in!
It depends upon their parentage. Federal laws have defined who is and is not born a citizen over the last 225 years, but especially in the early years it was based on English Common Law which held that citizenship by birth occurred when a child was born in the country or territories of the country, or when born to parents who were citizens themselves.
If a child does not have to be naturalized, as determined by the law, then they are citizens by birth.
Cruz will be a great president.
I appreciate your reply. Obviously you have done considerable research on this subject. I confess I have not.
If I understand you correctly, while the plain language of the fourteenth amendment specifies “born in the United States”, legislation has defined that to include a child actually born in another country if that child’s parents were themselves citizens of the United States. I haven’t thought it through completely, but on a practical level, it makes sense.
Thanks again for the explanation.
well then... since he’s given up his canadian citizenship...
obviously he’s now a natural born citizen of the US
even tho he was born in canada...
with dual citizenship
yup. totally eligible. nothing to see here. move along.
what’s bizarre about dual citizenship not being equal to natural born citizenship?
oh, i forgot. you want this guy, so you forget about that pesky founding document.
i see.
you have no idea what the term ‘natural born citizen’ means or why the founders put it in the Constitution.
do your own homework. all this was discussed when 0bama ran in 2008 and 2012.
the reasons 0bama wasn’t/isn’t eligible are the same reasons TCruz is not eligible. both were born with dual citizenships which immediately disqualifies them.
it’s very simple:
a natural born citizen is a citizen naturally... AS THERE ARE NO ALTERNATIVES.
both 0bama and TCruz had alternatives at birth, making them citizens of 2 countries but not a natural born citizen of either.
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