As patriots of a nation founded on Christian principles, what we owe to our posterity is not "the benefit of the doubt" to anyone. We owe them a clear-cut definition of the words "natural born Citizen," as found in Art. II of the COTUS.
Those empowered by that very same COTUS to provide us with that service have avoided that responsibility, causing endless arguments among Christian patriots, as if by design of the unpatriotic, atheist, marxist Left.
The assiduous research quoted by those whom I disagree, or agree for that matter, is sincerely appreciated. The plethora of laws, statutes, regulations, dicta, related decisions, etc. do not directly relate to the questions surrounding the eligibility of Presidential candidates. They are extrapolation, pure and simple, on the part of those not authorized to do so. That would be us.
Cruz, whom I have come to regard as a great man and a voice for conservative principles of limited federal power, is not the someone we should ".... congeal around a single Tea Party Conservative NOW.... nor is any one else. Rather he should, IMNVHO, take this opportunity to lead a national effort to have the SCOTUS accept and hear on its merits one of the many valid appeals that have come before it and protect the Constitution.
Respected Justices of the SCOTUS have told us that they have avoided the issue. Why?
"Benefit of the doubt?" If the SCOTUS were to merely perform their constitutional function, there would not be a "shadow of doubt" as to who is eligible to run for the office of President and who is not.
What you have done is very illustrative of why the country is in the mess it is in. Effectively, rather than relying on your own intelligence, your own conscience and your own liberty to make a rational decision on your own as to whether or not the Framers intended to include the Children of Citizens board abroad as Natural Born Citizens, you have surrendered that individual liberty to 9 unelected and unaccountable people, the same people who gave us Roe v. Wade.
Do you honestly believe that a ruling by these CLOWNS (yes they are CLOWNS) is going to remove the "shadow of a doubt" that you have in your own mind as to whether or not Ted Cruz should be eligible to take the office of president?
Do you really have that much respect for the opinion of those 9 clowns?
George Washington in 1790, the year after the Constitution was ratified, signed into law a provision that the children of Citizens born abroad would be deemed Natural Born Citizens. This law was passed by the same people who wrote the Natural Born Citizen Clause into the Constitution.
Here we are eleven score and three years later and you are anxiously waiting for the same court that gave us Roe v. Wade and Obamacare to render a decision before you can possibly vote for a man who, if he had been born in 1790 would have been considered a natural born citizen in the eyes of George Washington?
You are a sovereign individual with a remnant of the Liberty that those who died in the Revolutionary war fought to preserve for you. Every day that Congress meets and every day the Supreme Court makes a ruling you are further and further away from being able to pass that remnant of Liberty down to your posterity.
And you are unwilling to give Ted Cruz the benefit of your own individual doubt and instead wish to surrender that decision to the Supreme Court of the United States?
How can you call yourself a patriot in a day such as this when you can't resist the temptation to surrender your own Liberty to a bunch of senile unelected buffoons, the opinions of whom you seem to respect more than Liberty itself?
Kenny, if you can't give Ted Cruz the benefit of the doubt you have as to his eligibility, then I just don't know what to say to you.
Article II Section 1 empowers and commands state legislators to appoint, as they “may direct,” presidential electors.
Conservatives should resist falling into the “let scotus decide” mindset of the Left.
The last think our republic can stand is further judicial interference with the political process to point that scotus gets to determine who can be president.