Once again the question as to whether Ted Cruz has a constitutional right to run for President of the United States is in the news. Donald Trump, who strongly pursued the argument that Obama was not an American citizen and therefore could not be President, is now stating a similar argument about Cruz.
On Twitter yesterday, Trump tweeted, “If Ted Cruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating and doing negative ads, (I’ll) sue him for not being a natural born citizen.” He also tweeted, “Do Americans really want a Canadian born president? First non-native born in history?”, as well as “…natural born means born on American soil.”
Trump may not have to file suit as one has already been filed by five Cullman County, Alabama voters who are seeking a judgement stating that Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for President of the United States. They believe there is enough evidence that Cruz is a Canadian citizen and therefore not an American citizen.
Do they have a valid case? Read more on page two about the lawsuit against Ted Cruz.
THAT IS RIGHT MR TRUMP IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THEM HAVE THEM THROWN OUT OF THE RACE , WHERE WERE YOU WHEN OBAMA RAN FOR PRESIDENT, OH I FORGOT YOU WERE A DEMOCRAT THEN, AND YOU MAY STILL BE ONE AT HEART
This will stop the$#%&!@* good.
What about the fool that is supposed to be our president now
This is just a bunch of bologna. My husband was in the Air Force and stationed in Germany where he met and married his first wife. They had a son born in Germany. They moved back to the U.S. His wife was German. He was a US citizen. His son born in Germany to a US citizen dad was a US citizen because his dad was. His son’s US citizenship has never once been questioned. Ted Cruz was born to a US citizen mother. Ted Cruz is therefore a US citizen just like my husband’s son is. People need to stop looking for problems where there are none!!!
Wade Ross
Harvard Law Review Forum
On the Meaning of “Natural Born Citizen”
All the sources routinely used to interpret the Constitution confirm that the phrase “natural born Citizen” has a specific meaning: namely, someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth with no need to go through a naturalization proceeding at some later time. And Congress has made equally clear from the time of the framing of the Constitution to the current day that, subject to certain residency requirements on the parents, someone born to a U.S. citizen parent generally becomes a U.S. citizen without regard to whether the birth takes place in Canada, the Canal Zone, or the continental United States.2×
While some constitutional issues are truly difficult, with framing-era sources either nonexistent or contradictory, here, the relevant materials clearly indicate that a “natural born Citizen” means a citizen from birth with no need to go through naturalization proceedings. The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common law3×
Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent.
The Naturalization Act of 1790 expanded the class of citizens at birth to include children born abroad of citizen mothers as long as the father had at least been resident in the United States at some point. But Congress eliminated that differential treatment of citizen mothers and fathers before any of the potential candidates in the current presidential election were born. Thus, in the relevant time period, and subject to certain residency requirements, children born abroad of a citizen parent were citizens from the moment of birth, and thus are “natural born Citizens.”
Glenn Beck will cry and p**s himself on live television and say Jesus must descend and save Cruz and his people and bring them out of the desert to save all of mankind LOL I don’t dislike Cruz however I feel Dr. Carson should be getting his vote by default and rightly so.
Iva Morgan Cruz is not naturalized. Did not have to be. His moher is a U.S. citizen and was at the time of his birth. He is Natual Born Citizen because of her. She has been a citizen since her birth.
The mother doesn’t matter the constitution clearly states the father.. The father has to be a us citizen. Period.. congress and state law don’t count or super seed the constitution.. it’s solely based on the fathers position..
No great loss he us a liar we don’t need another Obama in office again.
CRUZ WILL WIN THIS ONE….WHY DIDN’T THEY GO AFTER THE WEASEL WE HAVE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW.