Posted on 01/11/2016 6:52:52 PM PST by 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.
Stop trolling the forum and misusing Scripture, and performing what is — essentially — context-sensitive Denial of Service attack.
“Do not let a “root of bitterness†spring up in your heart” (Hebrews 12:15)
True! And thank you for that.
Let’s ignore her
Let’s ignore her
Do you ignore a hacker who has set up a Denial of Service attack?
Of course not. You bring them down.
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.”
1 John 4:8 “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
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.”
1 John 4:8 “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
Can’t help it. Talos guides me. ;)
You are engaging in a contextual-sensitive Denial of Service attack on Free Republic by misusing the Holy Bible. You are likely sitting in a troll-center, getting paid.
Why do you always want to let evil run wild?
Stop engaging in a contextual Denial of Service attack by flooding the forum with misused Scripture.
Very good move to ping the mod. First thing they will do is look at that posting history of yours.
No matter the form it takes, disruption is frowned on here.
Isaiah 51:7 - “Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults.”
Don, this ain’t her first rodeo with this. It’s her third this week. The mods know. Shes still here.
“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
I try to look at situations like this with “Gordian knot cutting” views.
Mr. Y, with whom I stiffly disagree quite often, is at least warm on this; if we don’t have a model of God in our picture and how His governance pertains, then we can’t sort out Constitution questions either.
I take a far more grace-based view than does Mr. Y, which in fact I hold to be the correct and bible backed view, not just a view that I choose because I might happen to like it. Grace can have costs; it can conscript resources of mine to be spent upon furthering grace. However the promise then is there that I will be rewarded handsomely for doing that.
Here is how I go: ANY reasonable take on the Constitution which brings the spirit of God to bear, is better than none. We are talking about men’s work in the face of God’s, and the former has to yield to the latter for us to see blessing.
In the meantime, things in the Constitution could be revised to better ward off problems, and that should be addressed when the proper time comes for it. I am sanguine on things like a Bork amendment, which brings the USSC stagnation situation better back into line with the philosophy of “We The People” heading up the Constitution. Even better might be some way of doing a Federal plebiscite, but that may be too easily gimmicked.
Because if we don’t FEED it, then it gets bored and leaves.
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