[JayGalt]

Its so sad that you feel the need to either attack or post so large that the presentation obscures the material. I respect you for your service but not for your snap judgements about people based solely on whether they seem to support your positions. I am very careful in posting to give supporting links or state that something is an opinion.

I think as I have stated many times that Cruz is an excellent man and a resource for our country. Some of his positions have troubled me but in no way do I want him attacked or marginalized over the birth right citizen issue. I think that there is considerable support that the Founders and many judges established the requirement for a President/Vice president to be a natural born citizen requires him/her to be born of two American citizens. This has traditionally included birth in the USA but has been extended to those out of the country on our counties service.

There is no lying here no intent to distort. I think your posts sidestep the issue while establishing Ted Cruz’s citizenship they neglect the issue of natural born being defined as of two American citizen parents. That position is actually spelled out in some of the material you have posted. The literature is replete with people who have played fast & loose with the definitions, intermingling them fallaciously. So its easy to find quotes with that approach. If you return to the sources two citizen parents are always specified when the distinction between citizen, citizen at birth and natural born citizen are distinguished. Additionally the correspondence of the Founders at the time is clear in their intent.

My preference would be for the issue to be defined and congress and the parties to sign off on the standards that are so defined. The Founders were trying to protect our country from being damaged by leadership contaminated by foreign allegiances. If Obama had been held to the standard of two citizen parents a great deal of damage to America could have been avoided. If congress decided to grandfather Ted Cruz and hold the line from this time forth I would be quite satisfied. I am not against Ted Cruz, I am against the erosion of our constitutional protections.

As an aside why are the majority of the books on your about me page related to Clinton?

[Yosemitest]

"... based solely on whether they seem to support your positions.
... I think that there is considerable support
that the Founders and many judges established the requirement
for a President/Vice president to be a natural born citizen
requires him/her to be born of two American citizens"

WRONG, mister OVER INFLATED EGO !
Take it up with the Supreme Courty of the United States and our Founding Fathers.
ORIGINAL SOURCES show that, not only I, but THEY TOO, DISPUTE YOU !

In 1798, the law on naturalization was changed again.
The Federalists feared that many new immigrants favored their political foes, the Democratic-Republicans.
The Federalists, therefore, wanted to reduce the political influence of immigrants.
To do so, the Federalists, who controlled Congress, passed a law
that required immigrants to wait fourteen years before becoming naturalized citizens and thereby gaining the right to vote.
The 1798 act also barred naturalization for citizens of countries at war with the United States.
At the time, the United States was engaged in an unofficial, undeclared naval war with France.
The French government thought the United States had taken the side of Britain in the ongoing conflict between Britain and France.
A related law passed in 1798, the Alien Enemy Act, gave the president the power during a time of war to arrest or deport any alien thought to be a danger to the government.

After Jefferson became president (in 1801), the 1798 naturalization law was repealed, or overturned (in 1802).
The basic provisions of the original 1790 law WERE RESTORED except for the period of residency before naturalization.
The residency requirement, that is, the amount of time the immigrant had to reside, or live, in the United States, was put back to five years, as it had been in 1795.

The 1802 law remained the basic naturalization act until 1906, with two notable exceptions.
In 1855, the wives of American citizens were automatically granted citizenship.
In 1870, people of African descent could become naturalized citizens, in line with constitutional amendments passed after the American Civil War (1861-65)
that banned slavery and gave African American men the right to vote.
Other laws were passed to limit the number of people (if any) allowed to enter the United States from different countries,
especially Asian countries, but these laws did not affect limits on naturalization.

Within a decade of adopting the Constitution, immigration, and naturalization in particular, had become hot political issues.
They have remained political issues for more than two centuries.

Did you know ...

Naturalization laws relate to the process of immigrants becoming a citizen.
Other laws have provided for losing citizenship -
- by getting married!
In 1907, Congress passed a law that said a woman born in the United States (and therefore a citizen) would lose her citizenship
if she married an alien (who was therefore not a citizen).
In 1922, two years after women won the right to vote,
this provision was repealed and a woman's citizenship status was separated from her husband's.

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