I am a Cruz supporter because he is by far the preferable candidate of the remaining three. He was not my first choice. With that said, Cruz is eligible due to precedent.
While attending Texas schools my entire childhood and my Constitution class at a Texas state school, the texts all stated there were THREE types of citizenship. Natural born required that the citizen be born on American soil to TWO American citizens.
My further experience with this issue was having a child on a foreign US Military base. I had to apply for my child’s “Citizen Born Abroad” blue form. Upon receipt, I inquired as to what this form meant to my child. It was explained to me that my child held all rights to US citizenship EXCEPT the child could never be POTUS.
The US government obviously still followed this policy at the time Congress granted McCain citizenship status; otherwise it would have been unnecessary to do so.
Obama was elected due to Pelosi’s certification with the added benefit of being half black; thus stopping any chance of having his lack of NBC status nullified.
Romney was nominated. Obama was still POTUS, preventing a NBC fight.
After Obama, Romney, and McCain, it has become accepted that we now have two forms of citizenship. No NBC fight will be ruled against a citizen as it would nullify the legitimacy of races and POTUS in the past.
While we may not like or agree with it, the NBC issue has been settled for the foreseeable future. To continue this argument is a waste of time and resources. Cruz is a NBC simply because his mother has a certificate of US birth.
Mitch the Senate knows what ‘natural born’ means... He sure was not going to attempt to set/follow precedence under his name.
Mitch McConnell: Why no, the Senate won’t pass a resolution affirming Cruz’s eligibility like it did for McCain
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“While attending Texas schools my entire childhood and my Constitution class at a Texas state school, the texts all stated there were THREE types of citizenship. Natural born required that the citizen be born on American soil to TWO American citizens.”
No, they did not.
Hogwash.
Nice try.
But there is no such thing and no Texas textbook ever taught it.