I was led to believe Cruz stood for ‘original intent’ of the Constitution. Now I find out he thinks he is entitled to an eligibility exemption. Cruz has taken an oath to defend and protect the Constitution.
If Cruz will two time his oath then I have no cause to think that he will not two time US when it serves his own purposes. Cruz is not eligible to hold the office and he knows it.
You’re the one who is totally ignorant on the Constitution. Making up that it says you have to be born on U.S. territory to be natural-born is no different than making up that it guarantees the right to abort your baby.
“Natural-born” has nothing to do with geography. It just means you were a citizen automatically by birth as opposed to having to apply to gain citizenship. The rule in England at the time said as much about “natural-born subjects.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause
The use of the phrase “natural born” was not without precedent. Statutes in England prior to American independence used the phrase “natural born subject”. For example, the British Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act 1708:[10][11]
The children of all natural born subjects born out of the ligeance [i.e. out of England] of Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors shall be deemed and adjudged to be natural born subjects of this Kingdom to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.
In 2000, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), in one of its reports, wrote that most constitutional scholars interpret the natural born citizen clause to include citizens born outside the United States to parents who are U.S. citizens.
Considering the history of the constitutional qualifications provision, the common use and meaning of the phrase “natural-born subject” in England and in the Colonies in the 1700s, the clause’s apparent intent, the subsequent action of the first Congress in enacting the Naturalization Act of 1790 (expressly defining the term “natural born citizen” to include a person born abroad to parents who are United States citizens), as well as subsequent Supreme Court dicta, it appears that the most logical inferences would indicate that the phrase “natural born Citizen” would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship “at birth” or “by birth”.[68]
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You seem to have your own private constitution.
Cruz is perfectly eligible under the one James Madison wrote. Just check Madisons own comments on that particular subject.
Just your lack of cogent thoughts.
That’s one opinion concerning the Constitution.
Certainly not one I share.
Thanks for sharing your concerns.
I believe that his argument is that that intent is found in the language of the fist Naturalization law, by which he qualifies.