The same goes for Sen. Barry Goldwater, the GOP’s nominee in 1964, who was born in Arizona. The problem? Arizona wasn’t a state yet.
There’s no shortage of historical and scholarly thought on the presidential eligibility of a U.S. citizen board abroad (And Harvard Law graduate Cruz has likely read most of it.)
But here’s the bottom line: Courts, based on long-standing precedent derived from as far back as English common law and the First Congress, would be all but certain to say that Cruz, as the son of an American mother, qualifies as a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as the commander-in-chief.
In other words, experts say: as long as you have one parent who’s an American citizen – no matter where you’re born – you’re a “natural born citizen,” one of the qualifications under the Constitution to serve as president.
Cruz was able to show that his parents had no intents on being anything else other than America. They were in Canada on assignment, not because they wanted to be Canadians.
Interesting to see NBC News shilling for Ted Cruz. Either they have something on him, or they see him as an easy mark for defeat...or probably both.
The law is that both parents have to be citizens and it doesn’t matter where you were born. We are a blood country, not a land country.
Citizenship requirements are only for non-democrats.
Anything but Trump continues....
Ted Cruz meets one of my preferences in a senator running for, well,
anything…
They should be one of the six that objected to the steal on January 6th.
(Even though I suspect he only did so for optics and I really don’t like him much.)
The rest need to be replaced as soon as practical.
~Easy
Ted Cruz is NOT going to be President.
Have we determined if Ted’s father was involved in the JFK assassination?
A) Care about Cruz or
B) Vote for him.
He proved who he was during the 2016 election primaries and more recently when he ran away to Cancun. Ted is in it for Ted, he's just like the rest of them.
There are two types of citizenship, natural born and naturalized. The constitution Article 1 Secction 8 says that The Congress shall have Power To … establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization. This power is specifically given to congress, which is why the courts are reluctant to take it up. There are not very many possible combinations and there is a list in The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Congress has the authority to define who is naturalized and who is not. They can change the rules whenever they want. Winston Churchill would have been a citizen if he were born today. They mention the citizenship of the father and the mother, the birthplace. There is an exemption for children of foreign diplomats born on American soil. Not only are they not natural born, they are not even U.S. citizens. What to do with birth on American territory?
Congress is very thorough listing all the combinations except one. Born on American soil of citizen parents. Congress can naturalize a child at birth simply by passing a law. It is still citizenship by law. If there is a question about your citizenship and Congress thought it was necessary to pass a law to answer that question, you are not natural born.
Citizenship by “nature” is not something Congress has authority over. Will we allow them to amend the Constitution by editing the dictionary?
Canadian is better than Kenyan.
The dems set the bar (with the complicity of the pubbies) when they accepted Øbozo, who isn’t even human.
I think he’s ineligible, and I’m generally a Cruz supporter. He’s one of my Senatecritters. Much better than the other loser.
He should stay where he is.
Yes, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya. So what?
Sorry but being born in a US territory is not the same as being born in another country entirely with a non-US citizen parent.
If you want to go jus sanguinis rather then jus soli you might have room to argue but not much since his father was still not a US citizen and it would not retroactive so Cruz is still out.
Personally I would go full jus sanguinis. Your parents are not citizens, neither are you.