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Is this a path Cruz' mother could have taken, or are you saying this is the route Mrs. Cruz took? There is a diffrence in possible route and actual route taken.
The route does not matter. Cruz's citizenship at birth does not depend on any form being filled out. It is a simple fact of law.
Are you unaware of John Jay's letter to George Washington suggesting that the "natural born citizen" requirement (and its intended purpose) be included in the Constitution's POTUS eligibility clause?
Wrong.
When Jay's letter was written, the convention had not yet decided that the President would be the Commander-in-chief. Jay made no recommendation at all regarding Presidential eligibility.
Ted Cruz is a interesting bloke, born in Canada so a Canadian subject of the Queen of Canada. So does Cruz have the right to become US president when he was born in and owes his loyalty to her majesty and Canada ?
No he cannot be President, no exceptions to that. McCain barley could've been President in my eyes due to him being born outside the US or its official territories, but nonetheless he could've been President solely because of being born on a US-base. I wonder does this same logic apply to Americans born in Germany on US-bases?
I wonder does this same logic apply to Americans born in Germany on US-bases?
Do you think it should? What is the idea behind "natural born citizen?" If it's to protect the republic from foreign influence, how would a newborn on an American base in Germany be a threat to that?
Ted Cruz is a interesting bloke, born in Canada so a Canadian subject of the Queen of Canada. So does Cruz have the right to become US president when he was born in and owes his loyalty to her majesty and Canada ?
It thus clearly appears that, by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the Crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, the jurisdiction of the English Sovereign, and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign State or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born.
III. The same rule was in force in all the English Colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the Constitution as originally established.
The very odd thing about that, Arus, is that given all that verbal meandering, Gray had a golden opportunity to rule Wong Kim Ark a "natural born citizen." Curiously, Gray specifically chose NOT to do so. Gray only ever referred to Wong Kim Ark as "a citizen."
In direct contrast, in later rulings which I've already posted, SCOTUS specifically refers to the persons in question (who were born in the U.S. to two U.S. citizen parents) very specifically as "natural born citizens."
By definition and under US law, anybody who is a US citizen (not even a natural born one) or national is not a foreigner.
Now you're just making stuff up.
Here's what the U.S. State Department says about that...
Each country has its own citizenship laws based on its own policy. Persons may have dual nationality by automatic operation of different laws rather than by choice. ...The U.S. Government recognizes that dual nationality exists but does not encourage it as a matter of policy because of the problems it may cause. Claims of other countries on dual national U.S. citizens may conflict with U.S. law, and dual nationality may limit U.S. Government efforts to assist citizens abroad. ...dual nationals owe allegiance to both the United States and the foreign country. They are required to obey the laws of both countries. Either country has the right to enforce its laws.[/quote]US State Department Services Dual Nationality
The U.S. State Dept does indeed consider dual nationals to be citizens of a foreign country.
There is no federal law or SCOTUS decision which states such. The U.S. State Dept even explictly warns in a 2012 publication that such is NOT necessarily true for Constitutional purposes.
At least the following Presidents were all dual citizens at birth.
Tyler, Taft, Truman, Eisenhower, Arthur, FDR and JFK.
Kennedy was triple.
Now you're making even more stuff up. What the hell are YOU smoking?
Plans were made to grant "honorary" Irish citizenship to President JFK during his visit to Ireland in 1963 but this was abandoned due to the multitude of legal difficulties and consequences of granting a foreign head of state citizenship.
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The files also show that plans to make Mr. Kennedy an honorary Irish citizen were scrapped after extensive behind-the-scenes consultations.
The awarding of the honour was to have been one of the high points of the president's four-day visit to Ireland but Irish and American officials raised so many legal difficulties that the plan was abandoned.
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