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To: mbrfl

Just pointing out who was not born in America. Ted Cruz is covered by The US Constitution which created equal rights for all citizens without a single exception. If you are suggesting otherwise then you are an embarrassment.


204 posted on 01/11/2016 12:36:50 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The U.S. Constitution created equal rights for all citizens? That’s news to me. It would be news to the framers too. The Constitution made a clear distinction between citizens who are natural born and those who are not, and clearly they granted unequal rights to these two classes of citizens when it came down to who had the right to be President and who didn’t.

If they thought the terms ‘citizen’ and ‘natural born citizen’ were synonymous, then they wouldn’t have added the term ‘natural born’ into the eligibility clause. Common sense, and the writings of the time make it clear that the two terms had separate meaning.

Both classes of individuals are U.S. citizens and yet they don’t have an equal right under the Constitution to be President, so your false claim that the U.S. Constitution created equal rights for all citizens has no bearing on the debate.


206 posted on 01/11/2016 1:31:18 AM PST by mbrfl
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