http://www.businessinsider.com/law-professor-ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president-2016-1
I agree with the author. Cruz is not NBC. I will not be voting for the Canadian either now or in 2018 if he runs for the Senate again.
“I agree with the author. Cruz is not NBC.”
The founders wrote letters to each other that unequivocally deny the Blackstone legal theory of applying British common law to our nation. We even went to war in 1812 over this very thing.
Further, in order for the law professor to be correct, the very founders who ratified the Constitution also enacted an unconstitutional law just 18 months later. The founders clearly thought it was constitutional and within the purview of Congress to decide if foreign born children of US citizens were “natural born citizens”. This proves that the founders regarded the “natural” part of the formula to be based on jus sanguinis and not jus soli. Their conception of natural law was based on the Law of Nations by Vattel and not British common law as Blackstone proposed some time later.
Under the applicable law, Cruz’s citizenship was conferred from his mother, which means it was naturally conferred rather than by a process of naturalization.