If we spent more time using the rules as written in the Constitution to exam whether a man is eligible to be president instead of how much money he has and how he spends it, we would be a whole lot better off...
the Constitution tells us the president of the United States must be a natural born American citizen at least 35 years old who has lived in the United States 14 years (however that part was more for the early presidents here before the Constitution was adopted)
There’s nothing there about the state of his finances nor his morals or how many wives he may have had (Reagan for instance)..
However when we want to define exactly who or what a natural born American citizen is (and if we dare or even fairly want to) it is further stipulated in the Constitution under the 14th Amendment that the person
must be born in the United States, which disqualifies Ted Cruz who was born in Canada, and
must be under the jurisdiction thereof, which lets out Marco Rubio whose parents were not American citizens but Cubans nor indicated any intention of being loyal or aligned with the United states...they didn’t become American citizens until Marco was grown ...
so who are we left with who are eligible to be America citizens ???
Dr Ben Carson who was born in the United States of American citizen parents...
John Kasich who was born in the United States of American citizen parents...
Donald J trump who was born in the United States of American parents... his mother was born in Scotland but naturalized a few years before he was born...
all these men are at least 35 and have lived more than 14 years in America..
BTW when Ted Cruz was born neither he nor his parents were “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” of American laws...they were living in Canada and subject to Canadian laws...
And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States
Birthers have been asserting that, since Rafael Cruz* did not become an American citizen until 2005, and while he was in Canada with his wife, during which time Ted was born, he became an Canadian citizen. This, in the Birthers’ view, disqualifies Ted from this Presidency, as “the Founders” never would have intended someone like him becoming President
But look closer at the bolder portion. It never says that the father has to be a citizen of the United States at the time the child is born. All it says is that citizenship "shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States." It is indisputable that Rafael Cruz was in the United States for a period of time prior to both Ted’s birth and his marriage to native born American citizen Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson in 1969. He fled Cuba in 1957 at the age of 18, arriving in Texas. There, he attended the University of Texas, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1961. He even married his first wife there, Julia Ann Garza, in 1959. They later divorced, but not before he had two daughters with her. He was also granted political asylum in 1961 upon his graduation from UT. ".....Let’s Put an End to this Birther Nonsense about Ted Cruz