Featured Is Ted Cruz, born in Canada, eligible to run for president?

If he was entitled to US citizenship at birth, then it's a non-issue.

 

Salty, I am not sure that I understand what voting in Puerto Rico has to do with American citizenship?

The US Constitution says, as you know:

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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

I think that under the US Constitution, US Senator Cruz is eligible.

Do you think that the term Resident in the US Constitution means only within 50 states?

 

I assume that it is because Puerto Rico is a commonwealth and not a state and therefore the people in the island of Puerto Rico are not able to vote in spite of their having been granted American citizenship, as you linked. They became affiliated with this country as a result of the Spanish-American war, as you know. Puerto Ricans became very unpopular when some of them attempted to assassinate President Truman.

 

How ironic that CTB seems to forget that it was Hillary Clinton that started the whole Obama birther thing!!!

Yes, of course Dems/liberals are racist.

After they only hate Cruz because he is Hispanic. :laugh:

 

That's excellent, targus.

We will all watch the attacks on Cruz eventually get to his race. They will not be able to help themselves. Same for Jindal.

 

http://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=2204067&postcount=9

Where he was born doesn't matter so much as the status of his parents citizenship at the time of his birth. Were his parents both US citizens at the time of his birth?

Obama's parents weren't. So Obama was born in Hawaii, big deal, doesn't matter his father was a British subject. Not a US citizen.

If we go by the definition the supreme court has used to decide what a "natural born citizen" is. Obama is not qualified to hold the office of POTUS.

If we go by what congress and "PolitFact.com" (who's in depth researchers evidently never bothered to check Supreme Court cases) decides then anything goes. Supreme Court decisions and the law doesn't mean much to congress and PolitFact.com, unless YOU or I violate the law.

4 SUPREME COURT CASES DEFINE 'NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'

Finally it should be noted, that to define a term is to indicate the category or class of things which it signifies. In this sense, the Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

Hence every U.S. Citizen must accept this definition or categorical designation, and fulfil his constitutional duties accordingly. No member of Congress, no judge of the Federal Judiciary, no elected or appointed official in Federal or State government has the right to use any other definition; and if he does, he is acting unlawfully, because unconstitutionally.

http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/us_constitution/news.php?q=1308252582

 

We're not talking about just "any" child. We're talking about the one running for POTUS.

The framers of the constitution made a special rule for that one child. They actually wrote it into law. That law says only a "natural born citizen" is qualified to hold the office of POTUS.

The Supreme Court defined the conditions that makes one a "natural born citizen" in four court cases not just one but four.

According to another Supreme Court case Marbury vs Madison no law trumps the U'S Constitution.

The Birthright Citizenship Act, H.R. 140, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act - not the Constitution - to consider a person born in the United States "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is: (1) a U.S. citizen or national; (2) a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States; or (3) an alien performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.

https://www.numbersusa.com/solutions/reform-birthright-citizenship

Sorry, your "law" doesn't apply here.

But, as I said before none of this matters because congress and the executive only follow the laws they choose to follow. If they don't like the law or the checks the constitution puts on their legal authority they ignore them and do as they please. Sometimes they will put forward dubious excuses to over step their legal authority and violate the law (constitution) case in point the "patriot acts" and the NDAA.

The govt basically said let us do away with the fourth and fifth amendments or the "terrorists" will get you. And all the frightened little sheople said Amen!

 

Of course none of this matters. If the democrat's candidate was born in Cuba to British parents and the republican's candidate was born in the UK to Cuban parents there would be a thousand and one talking head experts on TV telling us that anyone who moves here before the age of 35 is qualified to be POTUS.

Half of us would believe them. They're the network experts so they must know what they're talking about. And half of us would yawn and say who cares?