Posted on 04/30/2016 5:29:17 PM PDT by dynoman
GREENFIELD, Ind. — At a campaign stop just days before the critical Indiana primary, Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said one of her husband's strengths in the campaign is that he "is an immigrant."
"Ted is an immigrant," Mrs. Cruz said, emphasizing the word "is." "He is Hispanic."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I use the term “our” because no pardons and I are two completely separate people.
And, we have differing opinions.
Hey Heidi, tell everyone Ted could be an illegal alien, and get a few more votes!!
I had to get a notarized birth certificate just to enter first grade. They wouldn’t take my word for it. Where are Ted’s documents? Why are they sealed? I stll predict he will get kicked out of the senate when this is all over. Quit acting like his defense attorney. You sound like him.
What if your opinion is wrong? Wouldn't you rather know something, and know you're right, than go with a mere guess?
Do you know you need gasoline for a gasoline engine or do you guess diesel will do?
You are completely off base here. Unlike Americans at present the Americans that founded our Nation were passionate about these issue and their letters and speeches have been retained. I don’t know how you can even say the things you do when there is so much proof that the issue was hotly debated. Just think about why only the Presidency requires NBC status, why add another state of citizenship if the distinction had no meaning to the Founders? We have records that explain exactly why they restricted the office of the Presidency.
George Washington received a letter from John Jay, the future first Chief Justice of the United States, suggesting:
[W]hether it would not be wise & seasonable to provide a . . . strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the american [sic] army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.
As Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution declared: “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 ….” (Italics added) A loophole for themselves, as Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story wrote 46 years later, was created “out of respect to those distinguished revolutionary patriots, who were born in a foreign land, and yet had entitled themselves to high honours in their adopted country. A positive exclusion of them from the office would have been unjust to their merits, and painful to their sensibilities.”
This from the same man who in the very next paragraph of his famous “Commentaries on the Constitution,” goes on to say that the need to exclude the foreign-born was so obvious as to be unchallenged by any “sound statesman. It cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections.”
When someone fights so hard not to believe the evidence of history or not to apply logic to understand its lessons I can only believe there is a choice involved.
THIS IS NOT MY OPINION; IT IS THE LAW ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE USA !
Now go argue with the government; it's whom you are disagreeing with!
I post FACTS; you keep posting utter crap/uneducated/uninformed STUPID opinion according to nobody but you!
Do you have a law degree?
Are you an expert in Constitutional law?
HAVE YOU EVEN EVER SEEN THE STUDY GUIDE FOR THE TEST TO BECOME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN ?
FYI......you can easily find this guide on line; GO LOOK IT UP!
Nope, YOU are spewing your own stupid opinion; I quoted facts from the government !
” I have been guided by the Constitution and its provision.”
That is what you claim, but that is not the reality. The Constitution clearly states the enumerated powers delegated by the citizens of the United States to the Congress include only the power “To establish an uniform Rule of naturalization. . . .” Nothing in the Constitution grants the Congress the power to legislate natural born citizenship. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution the determination of natural born citizenship was accomplished by reference to natural law in the common law proceedings of the courts of law. Nothing in the Constitution has authorized the Congress any delegated power to legislate changes in the natural law or the Law of Nations with respect to a redefining the ancient qualification of natural born citizenship as a birth with two citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the parents’ sovereign. Instead, the Constitution limits the power of Congress to the naturalization of alien born persons as naturalized citizens, meaning any person not meeting the qualification of birth with two citizen parents in the jurisdiction of the parents’ sovereign, the United States of America.
FACT : TED'S FATHER WAS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN UNTIL THE 21rst. CENTURY; LONG AFTER TED'S BIRTH !
FACT : TO BE A NBC, BOTH PARENTS MUST BE AMERICAN CITIZENS AT THE TIME OF THE CHILD'S BIRTH AND SAID CHILD MUST BE BORN ON AMERICAN SOIL !
Ergo.......Ted Cruz is NOT an NBC !
Good post, well said
Oh, I forgot to add this to my last reply to you. If you can’t prove that you are a US citizen, you are not a US citizen. So once again, the burdon of prove is on Cruz and he has reclined to provide documentation despite frequent requests.
The only thing that I have added to any of this is that I think we as voters have an obligation to consider these issues when we vote. I don't think we should vote for electors who may vote for someone we believe to be unqualified. Qualifications are important.
Hey, Michelle 0 stated that Baraq 0 was born in Kenya, so what’s the big deal?
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If I had to decide that question, I wouldn't rely upon Vattel's opinion. He knew no more about engines than he knew about the USA.
Neither are you skilled in reading comprehension. I am QUOTING what the government of the USA has to say about this, NOT my own "opinion"!
So IF you decided that there is NO LAW about having to stop at a red light and go through it, do you believe that a traffic judge will accept your OPINION, instead of the law? LOL
She has a mouse in her pocket, because it can’t be a version of the “ROYAL “we”. LOL
Thank you. Someone with dual-citizenship is not natural born, but they are a citizen. No philosophy, no “thinking”, no “believing”. Either you are NBC or you are not. Nothing wrong with being born elsewhere and having the dual citizenship but it is not NBC. That is how I interpret it but maybe I just do not understand?
YOU may be unconvinced, but our Constitution was based on natural law, and the principles revealed in "The Law of Nations".
Your opinion doesn't change any of that.
I will also add the fact the limitation on the eligibility for the Office of the President of the United States was actually a gigantic liberalization on such restrictions. Under English and British law up to the time of the adoption of the Constitution, a person born abroad with citizen parents was not eligible to hold any English or British position as an officer. During the drafting of the Constitution the continuation of the historic restrictions to eligibility against persons born abroad were considered for a variety of U.S. offices, including the Senate and House of Representatives; but they were all eventually rejected with the singular exception of the Office of the President.
It’s a recent made up PHONY thing and stupid!
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