I won it so hard I even had Cruzers refusing to ping me as they mouthed off in other threads. At this point, going over old ground for Cruzers late to the party is tiring. The evidence is crystal clear: whether by a "Law of Nations" definition of Natural Born, or that used by the British as seen in Blackwell's Commentaries, Cruz is utterly ineligible. Both definitions passed citizenship paternally. Cruz, at best, has citizenship through his mother only, not enough to fulfill the constitutional definition of natural born as understood by the founding fathers and many originalist scholars, including men who have argued before the Supreme Court.
Then feel free to take it to court. Just arguing on threads is self-defeating at the very minimum. Go ahead and take it to court.
“Cruz is utterly ineligible.”
Don’t you find it a little strange that no one has knocked him off of a state ballot? If it is so obvious, why is he on any ballot?
Paternally, eh? There's a chance that might have flown in 1716, but not in 2016!
Psst!
Without modern genetics, the only reliable way to trace inheritance is through the mother only.
Paternal counts for nothing, unless you've got a lab far beyond the ken of the 18th century!