Who Is Permitted To Be The President Of The USA? The Full Story Is Embarrassing

The New Terrapin Gazette ^ | 19 January 2016 | LBB

[Jeff Chandler]

Some folks, including Don Trump, think Senator Cruz is not entitled to run for president because he is not a "natural born" citizen. This matter was debated when John McCain ran for the office, yet it seems that the correct answers are still not generally appreciated. So...

...is Senator Ted Cruz qualified to be president? Yes, because the 1790 Immigration Act declares flatly that people in his circumstances are "natural-born" citizens. That law followed the adoption of the constitution by about two years, and some of the founding fathers of the nation were in the Congress at the time. One knows, therefore, exactly what the constitution means by "natural-born".

John McCain's case is extraordinary. He is not a "natural-born" citizen because he was naturalized by act of Congress [snip]

So McCain, who should and could have been legally declared "natural-born", was naturalized instead. Congress never subsequently addressed the clumsy situation, though it could have laid the issues to eternal rest with a federal law precisely defining "natural-born"--as the 1790 act did.

[cynwoody]

The fact is that the entire Act of 1790 is obsolete as it was repealed a few years later, so you can't complain about one part being obsolete when the entire thing is obsolete.

The repealing act did not use the NBC term. So, it is irrelevant with respect to the issue at hand.

[cynwoody]

The fact is that the entire Act of 1790 is obsolete as it was repealed a few years later, so you can't complain about one part being obsolete when the entire thing is obsolete.

The repealing act did not use the NBC term. So, it is irrelevant with respect to the issue at hand.

[PoloSec]

"Instead of being born in Canada, they instead were born in Vietnam to an American serviceman and a Vietnamese mother. Would that person born in Vietnam be a natural born citizen of the USA?"

The statement and question respectively are clearly rooted in emotionalism and speculation

It is not complicated, think about it, the answer to the question is YES!

Now you might say, how so, I will answer thus, examine the facts beyond the conjecture you presented and THINK about it.  I encourage setting emotions aside and think, that is what conservatives are supposed to do, if then you are still stumped let me know and I will attempt to further facilitate discovery into the obvious simplicity of it all.

HINT:  Below are a couple of definitions from The Sages English Dictionary to facilitate the endeavor if you so choose to engage the thinking process.

Facts: A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

Conjecture: A hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)