Why are you being so dishonest? That 1790 law was REPEALED in 1795, and rewritten with the words “natural born” removed. As an ATTORNEY you must know that the repeal of a law means that it is as it never existed going forward from the effective date of repeal. Try claiming that the interstate Highway speed limit of 75 mph was still valid after the 55 mph limit was instituted and see if that gets you out of a ticket before it too was repealed and modified.
Any statutory definition of natural born citizen must comport with and be in furtherance of, the intent of the constitution and not the other way around. If the statute says that a Martian is forthwith defined as an Article II section 1, clause 5 NBC, than that statute unconstitutional.
AGAIN THAT 1790 Statute was REPEALED in 1795 and rewritten to remove the words “natural born.”. Cruz and people who make your argument repeatedly ignore and never seem to mention that fact.
I have run all of my opinions thru two constitutional attorneys who have argued and won cases before the Illinois Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court, who did not agree with me until they researched this matter. They now agree with me completely. They say that Cruz is even less of an NBC than Rubio is.
There is a very well organized scheme in place to remove the NBC clause either through neglect or misrepresentation. it is trivially easy to ignore or misrepresent the relevant case law. That's what courts are for.
“Why are you being so dishonest? That 1790 law was REPEALED in 1795,”
First, the people who wrote the Constitution enacted the 1790 law.
So that proves that Congress has the power to define natural born citizen.
In 1795, they repealed the law.
But later the Congress kept changing the law and re-established the same law.
The law in effect when Ted Cruz was born went back to the original 1790 version, except for eliminating the distinction between father and mother.
Ruh Roh Frank, that’s gonna leave a mark on our local ambulance chaser.
Nice work.
“Any statutory definition of natural born citizen must comport with and be in furtherance of, the intent of the constitution and not the other way around”
That is true, but the Constitution does not define who is a natural born citizen.
That gives Congress not only the power BUT THE DUTY to define “natural born citizen.”
And Congress has done so, making various changes over the last 230 years.
Because there is nothing in the Constitution that clarifies who is a natural born citizen, it is essential that Congress provide the clarification.
Again, you stubbornly cling to your fantasy that the Constitution says what you wish it says — but it does not say what you think.