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Ted Cruz Is A 'Natural Born Citizen,' Board (Illinois) Of Election Finds
Huffington Post ^ | 02/02/2016 06:37 pm ET | Cristian Farias

Posted on 02/02/2016 4:36:59 PM PST by 11th Commandment

On the same day he won the Republican Iowa caucus, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas got a favorable decision from the Illinois Board of Elections, which ruled that he met the citizenship criteria to appear on the state's primary ballot.

Two objectors, Lawrence Joyce and William Graham, had challenged Cruz's presidential bid with the board, contending that his name should not appear on the March 15 ballot because his candidacy did not comply with Article II of the Constitution.

In response to the filings, Cruz's lawyers relied on Supreme Court precedent, legal history and articles from noted constitutional scholars to defend the view that he is in fact "natural born" within the meaning in the Constitution.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: cruz; naturalborncitizen
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Sorry I misread and now realize we are in agreement.

I guess I can say this with out being required to seek a lawyers permission.


181 posted on 02/02/2016 6:16:03 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

I believe that you are.

I guess we will just have to disagree.


182 posted on 02/02/2016 6:16:24 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Mollypitcher1

What do you think Trump is????!!!


183 posted on 02/02/2016 6:16:30 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: diamond6

Not five years right before birth. 20 years could go by.and that is only the current immigration law for citizens


184 posted on 02/02/2016 6:17:49 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Read it again...


185 posted on 02/02/2016 6:19:42 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: diamond6

The answer is yes.so now answer the question


186 posted on 02/02/2016 6:21:16 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: TigerClaws
According to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 301(g) Cruz was a citizen at birth.

Does that equate with natural born?

I don't know.

According to that same section soetoro is not a citizen if he was born outside the US.

If he was born in Hawaii then he is an anchor baby, not natural born.

187 posted on 02/02/2016 6:21:50 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: butterdezillion

A great irony in all of this is that it was predicted many years ago that Republican candidates would face the same issue one day in their own ranks and here we are.


188 posted on 02/02/2016 6:22:06 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: Angels27

Show me where Trump ever said Cruz is not a natural born citizen. All I’ve heard him say is that it will be challenged by the democrats. And it will be.


189 posted on 02/02/2016 6:22:20 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (I doubt seriously that any vote is really counted.)
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To: Just mythoughts

When it comes to citizenship you are either “naturalized” or “natural born”. Since Cruz didn’t need to be naturalized, he is established as natural born. As much as I detest Obama, my issue with his eligibility was based on the fraudulent nature of his birth certificate. I suspect that he was born abroad, or his actual birth certificate showed his birth father as either “Frank Marshall” or “Malcolm Little aka Malcolm X” or “unknown” which would expose his entire biography as BS.


190 posted on 02/02/2016 6:23:10 PM PST by festusbanjo (Obama..Incompetent, Untrustworthy, Lawless, Arrogant. The one that our founders warned us about.)
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To: RummyChick

Again, as I have already stated, if a parent met the residency requirement (and the baby was born after 1952), the hypothetical princes are NBCs.


191 posted on 02/02/2016 6:24:20 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: bushpilot2

This & post 58, great recourses. I hope this issue sees the light of day & is resolved so it doesn’t arise again and again.


192 posted on 02/02/2016 6:24:29 PM PST by JayGalt
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To: diamond6

I did read it . you said you are a lawyer . it does not require those 5years to be right before birth. Those years could be from 10 years before birth


193 posted on 02/02/2016 6:25:08 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: skeeter
Simply can’t be. FR’s Constitutional experts have assured us he’s Canadian.

He was born in Canada of that there s no doubt. The Constitution still stands this ruling is no different than Pelosi submitting fraudulent certification to the State and the State accepting it. This was not a court ruling and their won't be one.

194 posted on 02/02/2016 6:25:26 PM PST by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. Wonder why is he winning?)
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To: 11th Commandment

195 posted on 02/02/2016 6:25:54 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 11th Commandment

‘zackly.


196 posted on 02/02/2016 6:25:54 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: RummyChick

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1401&num=0&edition=prelim

See specifically section (g) which I quote;
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years


197 posted on 02/02/2016 6:26:41 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: festusbanjo

When it comes to citizenship you are either “naturalized” or “natural born”. Since Cruz didn’t need to be naturalized, he is established as natural born.

You have stated it clearly and succinctly. Some freepers think we need to make this more complicated than it really is.


198 posted on 02/02/2016 6:26:54 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: diamond6

The prince isn’t hypothetical. He is a real prince . so you claim Madison would want royalty as potus


199 posted on 02/02/2016 6:27:35 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: fooman

Cruz has alliance with us, Barry from Indonesia, not so much.

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Cruz’s “alliance with us” began in 2014, when he surrendered his Canadian citizenship.


200 posted on 02/02/2016 6:27:38 PM PST by AFret.
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