>> “children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens.”
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>> The pluralization of “parent” indicates two parents, not one...
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> Not necessarily, because it says “children” rather than “a child”.
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> If it read “a child of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as a natural-born citizen”, then you would be correct.
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> But it doesn’t say that. It’s vague on the question, as is the Constitution.
And it is the vagueness that bugs me.
I am sure that our [domestic] enemies are working to destroy the Constitution, in all aspects — the destruction of the NBC-requirement would widen their pool of actors to place as President — as they fancy themselves to be elite, untouchable, nigh-unto-gods and thus free from any restraint. I am therefore quite uneasy in pulling for anyone who, even with best intentions, could be used to damage our already enfeebled Constitution further.
“And it is the vagueness that bugs me.”
“the destruction of the NBC-requirement would widen their pool of actors to place as President”
If it is vague, then how would clarifying be destroying it?
If McCain and Obama have both run, what precedent are you worried about Senator Cruz setting that is not already in place?
If you claim to want to discuss this, why do you avoid answering my questions and instead chase shiny objects such as calling other posters names and your objections to how searches are conducted?
Nationalism causes control problems for the PTBs, gives them headaches like succession movements and such, so nationalism is to be stamped out whenever possible and wherever found in the new world order being created.
Constitutionally requiring that the POTUS be a 100% pure American, that is, born to American parents on American soil, is very nationalistic and that's bad.
Far better to have a more multinational president, a more UN approved president with diluted nationality, rather than someone with a purely American pedigree, an heir to a purely American inheritance.
Far, far less nationalistic the multinational way.
(If you can't attack someone directly, attack their symbols. Better yet, get them to do it to themselves!)
Well, the Rats seem to have no trouble finding people who are fully NBC-compliant and who are absolute poison for our country and our rapidly disappearing freedoms.
I don’t see that the widened pool you fear would make any real difference in the long run.
I’m just not ready to toss Cruz aside over what is, at worst, a technicality.
There are much more important battles to be fought, and right now I don’t see anyone better suited than Cruz to be fighting those battles.