After much thought, I agree. Ted Cruz was born an alien, in another country. He received citizenship through Congress, by law not birth. The law states he is a citizen, not a natural born citizen.
Flame away.
No flame, just facts. Cruz IS a natural born citizen due to
jus sanguinis.
Cruz is not a native born citizen which is NOT synonomous with “natural born citizen”
His mother is/was American, why would Congress need to butt in? Oh, wait...
“After much thought, I agree. Ted Cruz was born an alien, in another country. He received citizenship through Congress, by law not birth. The law states he is a citizen, not a natural born citizen.”
Well said, I agree whole heartily.
We need a president with an American-sounding name.
This will in all likelihood go before the Supreme Court, and I think I know how Sotomayor, Breyer, Kagan, Kennedy, and Ginsberg will vote on this issue if it goes before them after Cruz is elected President.
I hope you really did analyze this on your own. It should feel good and give you confidence that your conclusion is the right one. Hats off, kudos. Apply that process to anything that you find important, and you will, I promise, be shocked at how misinformed the general public is. The public is being manipulated beyond your wildest imagination, largely by “follow the herd” and “ridicule” methodologies. If you don’t succumb to that, it’s like “The Matrix.”
Really, Kenny?
After much thought?
How much thought?
I've seen a lot of posts from you where you imply that you just recently had an epiphany, and now you can't support Cruz. Yet, you said this about him way back in November:
To: bestintxas
TPA was good for us, TPP is bad yet wouldn't have one without the other. I don't buy he was misled, he's too damn smart for that.
I hope I'm wrong but I see him going after Trump soon. Hope not or he will come off my short list, period.
76 posted on 11/21/2015, 3:10:37 PM by Kenny (RED) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies | Report Abuse]
You're what Rush Limbaugh calls a "seminar caller". You fake like you didn't always have the position you have right now, but hope others will ascribe some "moral authority" to you because or your recent, contemplative decision.
John McCain was born on August 29, 1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone
Although the Panama Canal Zone was legally an unincorporated US territory until the implementation of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1979,[citation needed] questions arose almost from its inception as to whether it was considered part of the United States for constitutional purposes, or, in the phrase of the day, whether the Constitution followed the flag. In 1901 the US Supreme Court had ruled in Downes v. Bidwell that unincorporated territories are not the United States.[40] On July 28, 1904, Controller of the Treasury Robert Tracewell stated, “While the general spirit and purpose of the Constitution is applicable to the zone, that domain is not a part of the United States within the full meaning of the Constitution and laws of the country.”[41] Accordingly, the Supreme Court held in 1905 in Rasmussen v. United States that the full Constitution only applies for incorporated territories of the United States.[42] Until the rulings in these so-called Insular Cases, children born of two US citizens in the Canal Zone had been subject to the Naturalization Act of 1795, which granted them statutory US citizenship at birth. With the ruling of 1905, persons born in the Canal Zone became US nationals, not full citizens.[43] This no man’s land with regard to US citizenship was perpetuated until Congress passed legislation in 1937 that corrected this deficiency. The law is now codified under title 8, section 1403.[44] It not only grants statutory and declaratory born citizenship to those born in the Canal Zone after February 26, 1904, of at least one US citizen parent, but also does so retroactively for all children born of at least one US citizen in the Canal Zone before the law’s enactment.[45]
In 2008, during a minor controversy over whether Canal Zone–born John McCain, born in the Zone in 1936, was legally eligible for the presidency, the US Senate resolved that McCain was a “natural born Citizen” of the United States.[46]
The Senate Resolution means nothing legally, McCain is classified as an NBC just because his buddies in the Senate say so.
Which they already have refused to do for Cruz, because they hate him
If McCain was eligible, so is Cruz.