Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama should be proof enough of the wisdom of the founders when they tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
One cannot be anything else and also be a natural born citizen.
Obama told us he was born a British Subject.
Who believes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, Monroe, Madison, etc. would have found him to be a natural born citizen?
Rubio is an anchor baby.
From a pure strategery standpoint it’s smart.
If it’s a slam dunk that neither Cruz or Rubio aren’t eligible then why hasn’t Trump filed the suit he’s been threatening and take both of them out at once?
Whaaa! Why are we losing! Whaaa!
He has always questioned the Canadian and the Cuban anchor baby not new.
The only thing fading more quickly than winter is Cruz.
Since you have nothing positive to post to support your candidate, you post things against others.
“If mine can’t win, I’ll stop his competition any way I can!”, even if you have to support Rubio...
How pathetic.
And I’ll bet those of you that switch to Rubio in here will understand the cyclical purges much more personally.
Yep... it’s time for Marco to stop repeating Trump’s talking points.
Cruz/Rubio 2016
- or -
Trump/Clinton 2016
A time for choosing indeed.
Well if the shoe fits and all that good stuff. LOL!
Republicans were absolutely derelict in not bringing the issue through the courts for a definition before Obama ran a second time. I was shocked when he first ran that there was no procedure to confirm that a candidate for US President was qualified to run.
If it isn't settled, you could run into crazy situations in the future where someone could be President of two countries at the same time, or someone brought up in an ISIS camp could be President, etc.
Trump is correct...settle it!
Well...he is an anchor baby.
Article II Section 1 Clause 5:
No Person except a natural born Citizen,
or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,
shall be eligible to the Office of President;
neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years,
and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The clause “or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,” gives a strong clue to what was meant by “natural born Citizen”.
The founders were (almost) all born in the colonies that became the United States.
So if being “born on the land” determined natural born citizenship they would not have need the “at the time” clause.
The founders were (almost) all born to parents who were Subjects of the British Crown.
So if being born to foreigners, in the territory that became the United States, were enough for natural born citizenship they would not have need the “at the time” clause.
By this simple analysis of the Constitution using it own language and simple logic, one can conclude that a person born in the United States from foreign parents can not be a “natural born citizen”.
So Marco Rubio is clearly ineligible to be President of the United States under the original intent of the Constitution.
To handle the case of Ted Cruz, one has to look at what determined the nationality of parents at the time of the founding. All original evidence says that the wife took on the nationality of her husband.
All the evidence we have it that Ted Cruz’s father was a Cuban citizen at the time of Ted’s birth, and that both mother and father were legal residents of Canada.
So applying the original intent of the Constitution, then Ted Cruz is not a natural born citizen of the United States, and therefore not eligible to be President.
Of course, if one wants to abandon “Conservative Principles” in this one instance, and say that the original intent is obsolete, then one could say they are both eligible.
But, to by honest, you would have to admit you were a “Liberal” and not a “Conservative”
It's a legitimate legal question which can't be clearly answered from existing law.
The British law to which proponents of citizenship look to is statutory, not common law, and there was no like statute in the US when the Constitution was adopted. Based on the common law that pre-dated the statute, it's an open question. Those who dismiss the matter as settled (in either direction) are being intellectually dishonest.
Rubio was never another citizen before American. The second he popped out of his mama, he was American. And how soon did he get his USA BC? Probably right then, in an American hospital. He has FAR MORE CLAIM to NBC status than Cruz, who was not officially American until age 16.
The only question is, was Rubio an anchor baby, born to an illegal in this country? I don’t think so. I think his mom had a work permit or green card, so she was a legal resident. As long as that is true, that she was legally here, he was NBC and he proved it right after birth if he had a BC right away.