[Vision2020] Ted Cruz launches 2016 presidential run

[Tom Hansen]

No, Mr. Crabtree.  This does not require extensive Constitutional knowledge, just a fundamental grasp of the English language.

I ask again . . .

What is your definition of "natural born citizen"?

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
  

> On Mar 23, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Gary Crabtree <moscowlocksmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "The Constitution REQUIRES that presidents be at least 35 years of age and "naturally born" in the United States."
> 
> Funny, You go to the trouble of trying to support your contention by actually typing out article 2, section 1, clause five of the constitution and fail to realize that the word "in" isn't used so much as once​.
> 
> That said, I believe myself to be a humble man and am willing to defer to your vastly superior grasp of constitutional law if you will simply cite the court case that definitively states what a natural born citizen is.
> 
> g
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>> Gary Crabtree suggests . . .
>> 
>> "BHO's mom was a US citizen so he is too."
>> 
>> The citizenship of BHO's mother had nothing to do with BHO's citizenship.  BHO was born . . . in 1964 . . . in Hawaii (five years after Hawaii and Alaska attained statehood). 
>> 
>> The Constitution REQUIRES that presidents be at least 35 years of age and "naturally born" in the United States.
>> 
>> Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States
>> 
>> "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."
>> 
>> Nope.  No mention of mommies or daddies.
>> 
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>> 
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>>   
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>> 
>> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
>> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
>> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>> 
>> - John Lennon
>>   
>> 
>>> On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Gary Crabtree <moscowlocksmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> BHO's mom was a US citizen so he is too.
> 
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