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In reply to the discussion: ABC Reporter Calls Out Ted Cruz: ‘Come on!’ The Shutdown Was Your Fault! [View all]aggiesal
(8,907 posts)58. No it's not. Here is the actual constitutional language . . .
No Person except a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font], 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.
There is currently no requirement for being JUST a US Citizen. You have to be a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font].
If, as you write all that is required is to be a US Citizen, why does the constitution even bother to have the phrase a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font]?
Again there has been no legal definition of a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font].
Is it a person born anywhere in the world of US Citizens? If that`s the case then Obama born in Kenya wouldn`t matter because his mother was a US Citizen.
Is it a person born of US Citizens on foreign military facilities? McCain situation
Is it a person born on US soil from non-US Citizens (i.e. immigrants)? Early fore-fathers situations
Is it a person born on US soil from US Citizens?
Again no court has ever defined what is a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font]. There has never been a constitutional challenge to the phrase a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font].
I believe that if Ted Cruz is nominated as a presidential candidate, this will probably go to court for a clearer definition.
There is currently no requirement for being JUST a US Citizen. You have to be a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font].
If, as you write all that is required is to be a US Citizen, why does the constitution even bother to have the phrase a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font]?
Again there has been no legal definition of a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font].
Is it a person born anywhere in the world of US Citizens? If that`s the case then Obama born in Kenya wouldn`t matter because his mother was a US Citizen.
Is it a person born of US Citizens on foreign military facilities? McCain situation
Is it a person born on US soil from non-US Citizens (i.e. immigrants)? Early fore-fathers situations
Is it a person born on US soil from US Citizens?
Again no court has ever defined what is a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font]. There has never been a constitutional challenge to the phrase a [Font color=red]natural born Citizen[/font].
I believe that if Ted Cruz is nominated as a presidential candidate, this will probably go to court for a clearer definition.
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ABC Reporter Calls Out Ted Cruz: ‘Come on!’ The Shutdown Was Your Fault! [View all]
Purveyor
Dec 2013
OP
I think that the door could open wider than you think. We have conservatives who have no compunction
marble falls
Dec 2013
#45
Cruz was born in 1970. My understanding is that the law wasn't changed until 1986.
Jim Lane
Dec 2013
#69
A man without a conscience, or heart, or soul, but hungry for power and fame is dangerous indeed.
indepat
Dec 2013
#6
I would have asked him if it was his evil twin up there reading Dr. Suess in hopes of default...
freshwest
Dec 2013
#14
Maybe I missed the time he has fixed any problems. I read his emails, he claims to be helping our
Thinkingabout
Dec 2013
#9
This is a time for people to step up and do the right thing? Yeah get rid of this prick!
Lint Head
Dec 2013
#21
I think his term goes up to 2016. He'll leach off the blood of Texas until then.
freshwest
Dec 2013
#23
Cruzing to the bottom of the FAIL barrel. He really should read the Bible some time.
Berlum
Dec 2013
#22
Cruz WAS instrumental, albeit just one of the many Republicans to try to "Shut 'er down!"
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2013
#34
Well, Jon has never met a B.F.E.E. he doesn't slather over, so he can have this/one point. n/t
UTUSN
Dec 2013
#35
praise Karl for insisting on reality. Few in M$M will talk back to their GOP bosses. As for Cruz,
Bill USA
Dec 2013
#56
To me, Cruz behavior is understandable. I have debated rightwing people before and observed
bluestate10
Dec 2013
#67