NATURAL BORN CITIZEN?

CRUZ NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN BY HIS OWN INTERPRETATION OF CONSTITUTION

By the strict interpretation of the the Constitution, of which Senator Cruz (ironically) is a firm advocate, he would seem to be ineligible to hold the office of President. To the Founders, writing in the latter part of the 19th Century, it is pretty clear what their ordinal intent was. A "natural born citizen" meant to them, what it sounds like to us. A person actually born on the land and in the country, to which that person aspires to serve as chief executive officer. They were concerned in those days, that some interloper from a foreign land (perhaps an English speaker from Britain or Canada) might rise in political power, run for the office of President and without being born and raised with the steadying cultural and social forces which make an American distinct from others...take over the government and modify it to conform to a foreign political or cultural system. As we all know now, Cruz was born in Canada, lived there as a child, was a dual USA-Canadian citizen up until very recently, and therefore, based on his own "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution, does not qualify.

Today, the actual legal status of who is or is not qualified as "a natural born citizen" to serve as President is still very much unsettled. Though the term has been adjudicated in more recent times in regard to immigrants and others born of US citizens abroad...the limits indicated in the Constitution for whom shall be eligible for the office of President still remains unsettle law.

Any one of the candidates running for office with Cruz. would have a legal right to bring a suit against his candidacy. They would be within their rights in helping to settle this issue for once and for all time.