Born in Canada with a Canadian birth certificate, long or short form = deal killer. He can't be POTUS. He can't be above the law. That would be a terrible precedent to set because if the POTUS models lawbreaking for everyone else...well...surely you can see the problem there..
What law?
What law says that Cruz cannot be President if he has a Canadian birth Certificate?
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In the 2008 election both major parties nominated candidates whose eligibility is dubious. For Barack Obama the question was whether he was born in Hawaii, which is U.S. soil. For John McCain the question was whether the Panama Canal Zone, where he was born, was U.S. soil. It is not, and being born of parents both of whom were U.S. citizens did not make him a "natural-born" citizen, although a statute was later adopted naturalizing such persons at birth...
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The U.S. Constitution provides as follows:Article II Section 1 Clause 5:
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...
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The U.S. Constitution provides as follows:Article II Section 1 Clause 5:
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.
The main authority for the original meaning of "natural born" is William Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume II, edited by St. George Tucker, a Founder, published in 1803, especially Chapter 10:
As to the qualifications of members to sit at this board: any natural born subject of England is capable of being a member of the privy council; taking the proper oaths for security of the government, and the test for security of the church. But, in order to prevent any persons under foreign attachments from insinuating themselves into this important trust, as happened in the reign of king William in many instances, it is enacted by the act of settlement,l that no person born out of the dominions of the crown of England, unless born of English parents, even though naturalized by parliament, shall be capable of being of the privy council.. Presidential Eligibility
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1. There was only one exception made for not natural born citizen and it was those people who could not have been born in the United States because of the date the people who made the Constitution all were foreign born. Their intent was that THEREAFTER all presidents of age 35 or greater must be natural born. At such time when there were sufficient 35 year olds born on US soil. Clearly we are beyond and well within that time.
2. The intent most obviously is that for the special and uniquely powerful office of POTUS, our Union's security is best preserved by having a president who has zero ties to a foreign country.....not a little, or a few....ZERO ties. ZERO influence.
3. Cruz's dad was not a US citizen. The word was "parentS", plural. Because as I said before, a US man on shore leave could sire a child with a Russian, Iranian or N. Korean woman and there would be no way to legally prevent that child born & formatively raised in any of those countries from becoming president also.. The 14th Amendment does not allow discrimination based on gender (father or mother in either scenario) or country or origin..
