Vanity: Would Ted Cruz Be Eligible For POTUS During The Time Of Our Founding Fathers

Me | 01/11/2016 | PJBankard

[PJBankard]

Based on the current knowledge of Ted Cruz's citizenship, would Ted Cruz be considered eligible for the presidency at the time of our Founding Fathers (1788 - 1840).

Facts About Ted Cruz:
1) Mother was U.S. Citizen
2) Father was a foreign Citizen
3) Born in Foreign Country (Canada was a British Colony at the time)
4) Held Dual Citizenship

On July 25, 1787, John Jay wrote to George Washington, presiding officer of the Convention:

Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government, and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.

While the Committee on Detail originally proposed that the President must be merely a citizen as well as a resident for 21 years, the Committee of Eleven changed "citizen" to "natural born citizen" without recorded explanation after receiving Jay's letter. The Convention accepted the change without further recorded debate.

[Duchess47]

Interesting.

[Lazamataz]

Stop trolling the forum and misusing Bible verses.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

1 John 1:6 “If we say we have fellowship with Him (God) while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”

[Lazamataz]

Perhaps it's a matter of needing a bit of experience with how this board rolls. Monomania is frowned on here, in my experience, regardless of the subject matter. At least a time out is merited.

Perfectly put. You probably want to bring this to the attention of the Moderators....

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Proverbs 26:24- “Enemies disguise themselves with their lips, but in their hearts they harbor deceit”

[HiTech RedNeck]

How about an ignore-out. If she shouts into the wind, nobody is harmed.

[Lazamataz]

Stop trolling the forum. We do more here than hurl Scripture at one another. You are clogging the bandwidth, probably on purpose.

[HiTech RedNeck]

So we have proposed a silence to you, and with that I intend to keep it.

[shibumi]

"But everyone knows an ant...can't
Move a rubber tree plant.

But he's got
High Hopes!
He's got
High Hopes!

He's got
High Apple Pie in the Sky Hopes!"

[HiTech RedNeck]

Let’s just say nothing unto her. Sometimes God does that to me when I’ve gotten off into some corner of stupidity, till my mind clears....

[HiTech RedNeck]

And whoops there goes another rubber tree plant!

[Lazamataz]

How about an ignore-out. If she shouts into the wind, nobody is harmed.

Clogs the "latest comments" feed and makes the forum less useable to those who want to talk about the real and present dangers to America.

It is, simply, a more-contextually-sophisticated Denial of Service attack.

[Norm Lenhart]

Told ya.

[Lazamataz]

My main issue with you is how seldom you are wrong. It’s pissing me off. :)

[Travis T. OJustice]

You’re basically spitting right in God’s face with your sleazy games, using scripture like that.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There are two kinds of wrongness. Wrongness on facts, and wrongness on attitude. Just sayin’.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

“Blessed is me, when men shall revile me, and persecute me and shall say all manner of evil against me falsely, for My sake.” (Matthew 5:11)

“Blessed is me, when men shall hate me…Luke 6:22

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine (teaching), for reproof (convicting/rebuking), for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16)

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine (teaching), for reproof (convicting/rebuking), for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16)

1 John 2:9...”Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

No discussion about real and present dangers is complete without discussion about real and present hopes.

If America wasn’t anything more than a heap of dangers I don’t know why anyone would bother with it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Just ignore her