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Will the rightwingernut Birthers Challenge Cruz?

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Anonymous

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June 10, 2014, 06:38 pm
Ted Cruz no longer a Canadian citizen



By Mario Trujillo


Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has officially given up his Canadian citizenship.

On Tuesday, the senator's office passed along a "Certificate of Renunciation of Canadian Citizenship" that was issued last month by the Canadian government


"This is to certify that the person named above has formally renounced Canadian citizenship and pursuant to the Citizenship Act will cease to be a citizen," the certificate reads above Cruz's full name, Rafael Edward Cruz.

The certificate is dated May 14. The senator received the certificate through the mail last week. The Dallas Morning News first reported the news Tuesday.

Cruz held dual citizenship because he was born in Alberta, Canada, to an American mother in 1970. Any person born to an American citizen is automatically granted U.S. citizenship, even if they are born outside the country.

However, Cruz was also granted citizenship in Canada, a fact he did not realize until the Dallas Morning News pointed it out last year. He immediately vowed to renounce the dual citizenship last August.

"Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator. I believe I should be only an American,” Cruz said at the time.

Questions have been raised about whether he would be able to run for
president, since he was born in Canada.
He has expressed interest in a run and visited a number of early nominating states. Most legal scholars agree that the constitutional requirement that a president be natural born include Cruz's circumstances.

Cruz retained council in December to file the paperwork, but in January some wondered why the reportedly quick process was taking so long. It has been 10 months since The Dallas Morning News first reported on his dual citizenship


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Lets see-- Cuban father, U.S. citizen mother, born in Canada and held dual Canadian citizenship for 43 years...

To all you Birthers- does that meet your natural born citizen requirement ?

It will be interesting to see if Dentist turned Birther Attorney Orly Taitz and the rest of the rightwingernut Birther crew will take up the challenge on a fellow Tea Party candidate-- or if such challenges are only reserved for black Democrat candidates :wink: :???:
 

Steve

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To all you Birthers- does that meet your natural born citizen requirement ?

first you have to define "natural Born"

A lawsuit filed by Fred Hollander in 2008 alleged that McCain was actually born in a civilian hospital in Colon City, Panama.[82][83] Dobbs wrote that in his autobiography, Faith of My Fathers, McCain wrote that he was born "in the Canal Zone" at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Coco Solo, which was under the command of his grandfather, John S. McCain Sr. "The senator's father, John S. McCain Jr., was an executive officer on a submarine, also based in Coco Solo. His mother, Roberta McCain, has said that she has vivid memories of lying in bed listening to raucous celebrations of her son's birth from the nearby officers' club.

These views have been criticized by Professor Chin, who argues that McCain was at birth a citizen of Panama and was only retroactively declared a born citizen under 8 U.S.C. § 1403, because at the time of his birth and with regard to the Canal Zone the Supreme Court's Insular Cases overruled the Naturalization Act of 1795,

The urban legend fact checking website Snopes.com considers McCain's eligibility "undetermined".[98]

and then it needs to be settled by the courts..

I am all for settling it.. McCain would have been a good one to start with.. to bad he didn't win that way the liberals could have had a field day with the issue and then it would have been President Palin..

but since it wasn't settled.. Cruz will do..

and I hope it is settled on a republican.. that way we won't have to listen to liberals like OT whine for the next twenty years ..

for a bit of "history. on the issue..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause
 

TexasBred

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Apparently we already have a precedent:

The following Presidents were born British subjects before the establishment of the United States:

George Washington.
John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson.
James Madison.
James Monroe.
John Quincy Adams.
Andrew Jackson.
William Henry Harrison.

Were they grandfathered in??
 
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Anonymous

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TexasBred said:
Apparently we already have a precedent:

The following Presidents were born British subjects before the establishment of the United States:

George Washington.
John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson.
James Madison.
James Monroe.
John Quincy Adams.
Andrew Jackson.
William Henry Harrison.

Were they grandfathered in??

Yep- they actually were...

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.
 

TexasBred

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Cruz is in. Don't worry about him. He's as much a citizen as anyone else with an american citizen for a parent.

Every president to date was either a citizen at the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 or born in the United States; of those not in the former group, every president except two (Chester A. Arthur and Barack Obama) had two U.S.-citizen parents. Some presidential candidates were not born in a U.S. state or lacked two U.S.-citizen parents.In addition, one U.S. vice president (Al Gore) was born in Washington, D.C., and another (Charles Curtis) was born in the Kansas Territory. This does not necessarily mean that these officeholders or candidates were ineligible, only that there was some controversy about their eligibility, which may have been resolved in favor of eligibility.
 
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