Based on research by Greetings Puny Humans, the House and possibly SCOTUS could sabotage Cruz any time they like based on ‘natural born status’.
Hypocritical in light of Obama? You bet. But they really don’t care.
And since Chief ‘Just-us’ Roberts acts like he’s being blackmailed, that makes me uncomfortable with Cruz as our nominee.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3383942/posts?page=122#122
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The first from the law of nations, which requires the child to be born to 2 citizen parents and on American land. The second under British Common Law, as seen in Blackstone’s commentaries, which, though it removes the requirement of being born in the US, transmits the ‘natural born’ status through the father, not the mother.
Hence why a couple of the liberal scholars keep saying ‘under an Originalist view, Cruz would not be eligible,’ because that’s exactly true. A renowned originalist constitutional scholar (frequently cited by the supreme court) even said the same thing: ‘Cruz is not eligible.’
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Leaving aside the issue that natural born should mean both parents are born citizens inside of the USA to be a natural born citizen child - there was just zero evidence of outside USA territory birth for Obama. No plane ticket records - no over seas hospital records - no local folklore of the white woman giving birth in a Kenyan village, etc.
Cruz on the other hand was not only born outside of the USA but was giving Canadian natural born citizenship rights.
So there is a difference between Obama's case and Cruz's case.
With that said, I am the first to admit it is a campaign tactic by Trump (politics ain't bean bag) and to me Cruz is eligible.