Posted on 03/28/2015 4:05:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PING!
I am tired of this stuff.
As Dersh has said, Cruz is a brilliant lawyer. I have no doubts that he knows that he qualifies.
Okay, so now it’s fashionable to be a ‘birther’?
What a croc of $h!t.
Precedent Obama has rendered it a moot point.
I get tired of this too.
Realistically, there is no chance that anyone will challenge Cruz’ eligibility to run. There will not be any court challenges on this.
Some take the natural born citizen thing to an extreme. These people claimed that Rick Santorum was not eligible to run for president, because his father was not yet an American citizen at the time Rick was born. These people claim that both your parents needed to be American citizens at the time of your birth.
It seems a dead issue, in that, Cruz’ mother was an American citizen when he was born.
There ya have it. Eligible beyond a doubt.
Cruz or lose
If we have a republican house then yes
Cruz is a brilliant lawyer. I have no doubts that he knows that he qualifies.
Under the British doctrine of jus sanguinis, citizenship passes from one or both parents to a child, regardless of the birthplace.
The First Congress adopted this principle as law when it enacted the Naturalization Act of 1790, which declared that the 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. Though the 1790 law was superseded by subsequent naturalization laws as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, the principle of jus sanguinis remains central to understanding who is a natural born citizen.
Further, 8 U.S. Code § 1401(g) extends citizenship to children who are born outside the United States or its territories, provided that one parent is a U.S. citizen who prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States for a period or periods totaling not less than five years.
By comparison, a naturalized citizen is a person, born in a foreign country to parents who are not U.S. citizens, who seeks to become an American citizen.
Attempting to end this debate, in 2008, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution stating that John McCain, who was born on a U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone, was a natural-born citizen and eligible to become president. The resolution explained there was no evidence of the intention of the Framers or any Congress to limit the constitutional rights of children born to Americans serving in the military and that previous presidential candidates (such as Barry Goldwater, born in Arizona before it received statehood and George Romney, born to U.S. citizen parents in Mexico) were understood to be eligible to be president.
Yes.
I can’t find any evidence that Ted Cruz even knows how to play golf. Surely that alone is enough to disqualify him?
Any opinion rendered by a leftist on this subject is of no value.
I just posted it as an authoritative guide. Yes, he is eliglble. Ann Coulter, among other people, are questioning this. These people need to be hit with the clue bat.
Is he married to a tranny?
Oh look, you didn’t have to click the link.
Cruz or lose
You betcha!
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