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  • CBS News poll: Should U.S. Presidents be "Natural Born"?

    02/21/2016 5:06:49 PM PST · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 97 replies
    CBS ^ | 2/21/2016
    The U.S. Constitution prohibits anyone except a "natural born citizen" from becoming President, though legal experts disagree as to whether or not that means they need to be born in the United States or simply be an American citizen at birth. Though they may quibble on the definition, most Americans don't think this long-standing rule should be changed to allow naturalized citizens to inhabit the Oval Office. According to a CBS News poll released Sunday, while 21% of Americans would favor changing the Constitution to allow people who aren't natural born U.S. citizens to become President, 75% would oppose such...
  • Is Ted Cruz a 'natural born Citizen'? Not if you're a constitutional originalist.

    01/10/2016 7:36:03 AM PST · by jimbo123 · 155 replies
    LA Times ^ | 1/10/16 | Thomas Lee
    Article II of the Constitution states: "No Person except a natural born Citizen . . . shall be eligible to the Office of President." Donald Trump thinks Sen. Ted Cruz is not a "natural born Citizen" and that he is therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president. Is Trump right? Cruz was born in 1970 in Calgary, Canada, to a U.S. citizen mother and a Cuban citizen father. As to his Article II status, it's all in how you read the Constitution. There are three leading theories of how to interpret the Constitution today. One is textualism: the Constitution means what...