Ted Cruz is Running for POTUS

[WRW]

Legally he can't run, he was born in Canada! You must be natural born in the US to be president, or did people forget?

No, there is no qualifier of where born, just born a citizen suffices.

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[MarcSpaz]

Legally he can't run, he was born in Canada! You must be natural born in the US to be president, or did people forget?

No, there is no qualifier of where born, just born a citizen suffices.

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Though Article Two does not define Natural Born Citizen, the US Congress did, and it was upheld by the Supreme Court.

The definition of natural (and has been since the word was defined) is that an object or condition exists in or caused by nature; i. e. not made or caused artificially.

Using this as a biases, Congress and the Courts, (2 of the 3 branches and not the one in question) have determined that a "natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth," either by being born "in" the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth." Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an "alien" required to go through the legal process of "naturalization" to become a U.S. citizen.

So, Ted Cruz is a Natural Born Citizen (guarantied by birth right) because one of his parent was a US citizen at the time of his birth. Due to one of his parents being a citizen, he has a birth right of being a US citizen by our laws. Regardless of where he was born, he is a Natural Born Citizen. (one paragraph says the same thing three times, in case someone missed it the first or second time.)

If its good enough for Barry, Its good enough for Ted.

[dusterdude]

Yep