On April 12, an administrative Law Judge in New Jersey recommended to the Secretary of State that she place Ted Cruz on the June 7, 2016 Republican presidential primary ballot. The decision determines that Ted Cruz meets the Constitutional requirements to be President. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
As I recollect there were two Harvard University professors that stated Ted Cruz was not a natural born citizen. Ted Cruz was a student of one of these professors. Am I to understand that he was born in Canada and still declared as a U.S. CITIZEN?
Carolyn Walter: There really is nothing unusual about a person having US citizenship though born in a foreign country. It depends upon the citizenship of one or both parents. A notable historical example who certainly not be questioned as US citizen was Major General George Meade, Union victor of Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War, who was born in Spain. His father was in Spain on business at the time.
Neither Harvard professors nor administrative law judges are authoritative on this matter.
Citizenship stuff is ALL and ONLY about ALLEGIANCE.
See the last paragraph of the 1776 DOI.
natural born = AT BIRTH ALLEGIANCE to a regime via FATHER’s NATION-STATE status.
naturalized = AFTER BIRTH CHANGE of regime ALLEGIANCE.
Place of birth means ZERO — pre-mature or criminal forced or criminal invasion birth [think invasion of USA parts in the War of 1812 and WW II) in a foreign nation, accident birth (ship-wrecked).
Can be NO such thing as *dual citizenship* — Note Const Art. III, Sec. 2 regarding parties.
14th Amdt, Sec. 1 — *subject to the jurisdiction* = having ALLEGIANCE to the USA regime.
Much too difficult for the armies of legal history MORONS to understand.
THUS — one more SUPER CRISIS if Cruz is nominated by the Elephant Convention as Prez or VP.
Wake up the SCOTUS law clerks N-O-W.
The best explanation I’ve seen by a Constitutional scholar is here: https://vimeo.com/154765379?lite=1
Can someone clarify the facts? Was Rafael Cruz still a Cuban citizen at the time of Ted’s birth? Was his mother on vacation or actually working full-time? Did she ever become a Canadian citizen prior to Ted’s birth (and thus have dual-citizenship)? To be natural-born, does one have to be on U.S soil or at least on a U.S. military base?
Rafael Cruz became a Canadian citizen in 1973, and a US citizen in 2005. Rafael Cruz and his wife were computer programmers in the geophysical industry, and founded a company in Calgary. Neither parent had been resident in Canada long enough at the time of Ted Cruz’s birth (in 1970) to become Canadian citizens.