“Frankly, I believe neither Cruz nor Rubio are eligible under the constitution. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 clearly states that a NBC is born of two American parents on American soil.”
This is Article 2, Section I, Clause 5. NOWHERE does it say that an NBC is ONLY born of 2 American Parents on American soil. You made that sh*t up. Now apologize and admit you’re wrong or that you intentionally lied.
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
Excerpt from an article by Mario Apuzzo, March 31, 2011
“The Founders and Framers understood that under natural law and the law of nations, as explained by Emer de Vattel in his, The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature (London 1797) (1st ed. Neuchatel 1758) (“Vattelâ€), a nation’s most fundamental duty is self-preservation. They therefore included the “natural born Citizen” clause in the Constitution so that each and every citizen would be protected by having someone assume and exercise the great and singular civil and military powers of the President and Commander in Chief with only their and the nation’s values and safety at heart. To accomplish that end, the Founders and Framers required in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of our Constitution that anyone who was a “citizen of the United States†at the time of the adoption of the Constitution was eligible to be President. But for anyone born thereafter, they built in extra protection for the nation by requiring that anyone born after the adoption of the Constitution be a “natural born Citizen.â€
I ASSUMED that after citing George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Jay (First chief justice of the Supreme court) on a thread last night, someone would be able to connect the dots. I made nothing up, so take your foul mouth and outrageous assertions and climb into your OWN computer to do your research. I am NOT wrong. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 was written specifically using the term Natural Born Citizen INSTEAD OF CITIZEN! VATTEL was the source and reason for the wording.