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I think that there are a lot of fascinating arguments on both sides of this question. However, I think that too many people overlook the fact that the qualifications of candidates are to be judged by the electors who select the president and by the voters who select the electors. So, whatever anyone might think, they should remember that it is important to design their arguments to appeal to those decision-makers. If the argument is too convoluted or if it fails to make common sense, then it's not going to work.

The courts have never told anyone that he can't run for president. And, they're not going to try to do that.

A simple way to represent citizen ship

Non-Citizen those that have no claim to us citizen ship in any way.

Naturalized-citizens those that my statue and volitotion have become citizens but were at birth citizens or subjects of other nations.

Natural born citizens those that were at the time of there birth citizens not requiring any other legal procedure to change there citizenship to that of the United States.

T.Cruze is and always has been a citizen of the united states since his birth, he has never of his volition claimed any other citizenship nor has he ever been required to do so my the United States.

The issue with B.Obama was that if he was NOT born in the United States that at that time there was legal requirment for the age and amount of time of the mother (in his case) to have been in the USA and of a correct age.

In B.Obamas case this was the law in 1961

Citizen parent
physically present in
U.S. or possession 10
year prior to child’s
birth, five of which after
age 14.

Ergo if he was not born in US (Hawaii) she being 18 at the time of his birth could not fulfill the 5 years after age 14. This and only this is why his birth certificate is at all an issue to his Citizenship.

* see
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/unitedkingdom/164203/cons-acs/transmission_tables.pdf page [4]

For the actual law read the following.

http://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-
Volume12-PartH-Chapter3.html

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