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Listen, at first blush it seems like a rather ambitious move for a country like Canada to attempt to draft the president of the United States. But, I have to confess that I have never given much thought to that possibility.

Do you really think strawman mockery is an effective tactic? Obviously no Foreign country would attempt to draft someone AFTER they became President, but that is not the point. The point is that they COULD be drafted and made to fight against us prior to the fact.

If someone with Dual citizenship was drafted by a foreign Nation, and fought against us, would they be guilty of treason for fighting us? Would they be guilty of Treason if they didn't? Yeah, that body of law is clear as mud.

HOWEVER, someone recently turned me on to this treatise on The Law of Nations. It's by a Swiss guy named Vattel who wrote it in French.

A lot of people attempt to mock the fact that Vattel was Swiss, and that he wrote "Droit des Gens" in French.

Two points.

1. Switzerland was the only REPUBLIC in the world at that time, and Ideas for governing a Republic were not likely to come from a land ruled by a Monarchy.

2. The international language of Diplomacy was French. If you intended a large circulation of your ideas among the movers and shakers of other nations, it was compulsory that you write them in French.

I just think that if some foreign government unilaterally chose for any reason and without my request to view me as one of its citizens i would feel no obligation to respond to tax bills that it might send to me or to respond to any request that it might make for me to serve in its military. I am a citizen of the United States. I have no control over what the government of Canada does or says. I cannot stop the government of Canada from viewing me as a citizen of Canada if that government really wants to view me that way.

And, if Mexico chooses to not view me as a citizen of Mexico, that's okay, too. I am a citizen of the United States and have never asked Canada or Mexico to view me as a citizen. How those two governments choose to view individuals in this world is beyond my control.

I don't really care if Canada chooses to view Ted Cruz as a citizen or if Mexico chooses not to view Ted Cruz as a citizen. I am not going to let either of those governments manipulate my electoral choices or my vote by anything that those governments do or don't do.

Now, if Ted Cruz is seen to embrace Canadian citizenship (thereby making the relationship a bilateral one) or if Ted Cruz is found to be applying for Mexican citizenship, then either of those facts would probably be deal-breakers for most voters. But that's not what's happening here.

Our nation's eligibility rules and our nation's pool of eligible candidates must be controlled by our nation and by our nation alone. What other nations do or don't do cannot be a relevant factor.

Canada has extended to Cruz a right to citizenship. Unless Cruz responds to that request by accepting or embracing that offer, Canada has no right to draft Cruz or to tax Cruz or to render Cruz ineligible to be our president. He's an American!