Posted on 01/08/2016 1:51:20 PM PST by don-o
Eleanor Darragh, mother of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% , was born in Delaware on Nov. 23, 1934, establishing her citizenship by birth-and, according to U.S. law, that of her son, even though he was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Dec. 22, 1970.
The Cruz for President campaign provided Breitbart News exclusively with the birth certificate.
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Nope. We don’t need the personal attacks here either. I know truth is painful. We need well reasoned discussions of the law. God Bless and good luck with your ideas —
“the stay at homes and the purists who voted for the hopeless gave us Obama........but you knew that.”
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Like I said, unless something major changes TX will vote for the Republican Presidential candidate. I’m personally tired of holding my nose and doing that. I can’t stand people like Trump (including Trump). Meaning arrogant, blowhard, “look how great I am” types (or most people from NYC). I don’t believe anything Trump says so don’t trust him to do what he says. He spent a lifetime greasing the skids to get his way. How can anyone expect him to do anything else in the Whitehouse? “I really want to get his passed (whatever IT is) so I’ll give you (Dems) this great bit thing you want over here if you vote my way.” I can’t see that’s in our best interest.
Alinsky Much?
“Where are all of Hussein’s records proving that he is actually a citizen.”
Where are all of Hussein’s records proving that he is actually a person?
I feel sorry for you. Its coming like a freight train.
No statute can alter the original intent or meaning of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. That can only be constitutionally done by resort to the Article V amendment process.
Had Cruz been born in 1921 under the identical birth circumstances that he was born into in 1970, than he would not even have been a US citizen. The Cable Act, passed in 1922, allowed a US citizen woman, married to a foreign national and who gives birth in a foreign country, to transmit US citizenship onto the newborn child for the first time.
Article II, Section I clause 5, was ratified in 1791 with the rest of the constitution, long before the Cable Act.. Article I has not been modified by any subsequent amendment. Accordingly, the original intent and meaning of Article II stands absent any such constitutional amendment.
The purpose of Article II, Section I clause 5 was to prevent undue foreign influence on the office of the presidency, PARTICULARLY thru a father owing allegiance to a foreign sovereignty. The framers took their definition for NBC from Emmerich De Vattel’s Law of Nations, the 212th paragraph of which was quoted in it’s entirety in the 1814 Venus Merchantman decision. The Law of Nations is referred to in Article I of the constitution. That definition referred to an NBC as being born of two citizen parents and born on the soil of the nation. That definition was cited in the 1868 case of Minor vs Hapersett, and Wong Kim Ark vs US. De Vattel has been cited and accepted in dozens of SCOTUS and federal lower court rulings. The framers were patriarchs who believed t5hat the citizenship of the children followed the citizenship of the father.
The authors of the 14th amendment, Senators Howard Jacob and Rep. Bingham also defined an NBC in similar terms.
Obama is the very embodiment and personification of the REASON that the framers put those protections into the constitution. By ignoring it, we have opened ourselves to the anti American and unconstitutional tyranny that Obama poses to our constitutional republic.
Ted Cruz is head and shoulders the best candidate in the race. He is a patriot who loves this country and it’s people. He is intellectually and philosophically superior to ANYONE else in the race. As much as I admire him, He CANNOT be considered a natural born citizen, as he is a citizen by statute. He was born with THREE countries (The US, Canada, and Cuba thru his father) having a legitimate claim on his allegiance from birth, whether he wanted it or not. I believe in the constitution and the rule of law, NOT in the cult of personality. We should not yield to the same dark impulses of expediency and delusion that gave us the tyrannical sociopathic usurper demagogue Obama.
H->! has just as much as said that she is an alien alien.
Only if Congress allows it. You belong to the class of lawyer types that seem to think the Supreme Court is Supreme, it is not. Congress can and has passed laws that are not subject to judicial review because the writers of the Constitution knew all to well the danger of a Supreme Court as well as the danger of an imperial Presidency. Unfortunately our current congress has rolled over on both issues.
The State Department says that one may fill out the form and strongly suggests doing so because it will make life easier. But it does not in any way affect one’s citizenship.
Proof 1) one can fill it out anytime up until one is 18 years old. How could filling this document out years after one’s birth somehow give citizenship ACQUIRED AT BIRTH?
Proof 2) the second document, Certificate of Citizenship, is that for which folks apply if they’re over 18. If this is about “validation” rathef than documentation, how can you even apply for it, having missed out on the first form?
These forms are entirely unnecessary to determine Sen. Cruz’ status as a US natural born citizenship, and the desire to see them is voyeuristic.
Read the Naturalization Act of 1790... And yes, I know it was superseded by later acts, but this was written by the same people who wrote the Constitution, so it should be able to tell us the original intent of the Founders in this area... And as conservatives, don't we always look to Original Intent?
“The doc forgot to file it for 5 years and its in a different county from where I was born 5 years earlier.”
I had two. My name was misspelled by the hospital on the first one so another one had to be ordered. First one was, “Marsella”, next one was, “Marcella”.
The Nationality Act of 1940 was NEVER intended by its authors to AMEND Article II section I clause 5 with regard to presidential eligibility, and constitutionally, it does not.
Because some of those kids born overseas remain overseas and end up recognizing the value in validating their citizenship.
And winning by double digits, must really chap you guys getting beat by "a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences."
Besides, how does it hurt to show the forms?
No, you can show your foreign BC, a parent's US BC, plus your parent's marriage license.
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