<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">From Wikipedia:<br><br>"<br><div>The Constitution does not define the phrase <i>natural-born citizen</i>, and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its precise meaning. A 2011 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service" title="Congressional Research Service">Congressional Research Service</a> report stated that</div>
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<div>The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term
"natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S.
citizenship "by birth" or "at birth", either by being born "in" the
United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien
parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born
in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at
birth". Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a
U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an "alien"
required to go through the legal process of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization" title="Naturalization">naturalization</a>" to become a U.S. citizen.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></div>
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<div>The natural-born-citizen clause has been mentioned in passing in several decisions of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">United States Supreme Court</a>
and lower courts dealing with the question of eligibility for
citizenship by birth, but the Supreme Court has never directly addressed
the question of a specific presidential or vice-presidential
candidate's eligibility as a natural-born citizen."</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I don't know if that helps or not. We would likely need a Supreme Court ruling to be sure.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Paul<br></div><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 2:10 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5293547432"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">Then perhaps you should be having this debate with those "legal scholars" mentioned in the article.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Paul<br clear="none"><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv5293547432yqt2942429003" id="yiv5293547432yqt62844"><div class="yiv5293547432yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div
style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 2:03 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv5293547432y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5293547432"><div><div>I simply stated that Sen. Cruz is not eligible to run for President of the United States . . . and supported my statement with the U.S.
Constitution.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium;">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size:medium;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium;" clear="none"><span style="font-size:medium;">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="">- John Lennon<br
clear="none"></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv5293547432yqt6972330660" id="yiv5293547432yqt11726"><div><br clear="none">On Oct 17, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Paul Rumelhart <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">Are you serious? I suspect you are throwing Obama birther arguments at me as if I was one, which I'm not. You seem to have a very "us/everyone else" view of the cosmos. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Just in case you are serious, I've already explained that I am not a legal scholar, but agree that if the general agreement between legal scholars is
that he is eligible, then that seems like the likely answer.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In answer to your last question, the only thing stopping them is the common sense and good taste of the actual women involved.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Paul<br clear="none"><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv5293547432yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 1:43 PM, Wayne Price <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bear@moscow.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div
class="yiv5293547432y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5293547432"><div>As a citizen, born of a US parent outside the US, I'd have to say yes he qualifies, and apparently so does Sarah Duggin at Catholic University.<div><span class="yiv5293547432Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;"> It would be reasonable to interpret the Constitution’s natural born citizenship provision to include children born abroad to U.S. citizens, including Senator Cruz, for a number of reasons," she said.</span></div><div><font class="yiv5293547432Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="yiv5293547432Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div><font class="yiv5293547432Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="yiv5293547432Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px;"><br
clear="none"></span></font></div><div class="yiv5293547432yqt7579882003" id="yiv5293547432yqt27169"><div><font class="yiv5293547432Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="yiv5293547432Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></font><div><br clear="none"><div><div>On Oct 17, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:</div><br class="yiv5293547432Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv5293547432yqt7579882003" id="yiv5293547432yqt82297"><div><div><div>Again, I ask . . .</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><b>Is Sen. Ted Cruz constitutionally eligible to run for President of the United States?</b></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium;">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size:medium;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium;" clear="none"><span style="font-size:medium;">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="">- John Lennon<br clear="none"></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><br clear="none">On Oct 17, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Wayne Price <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bear@moscow.com" target="_blank"
href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Oh great, suddenly YOU are a birther? *S*<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Why don't you just do what you wanted everyone else to do, suck it up!</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><div><div>On Oct 17, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:</div><br class="yiv5293547432Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><div><div
style=""><span></span></div><div></div></div></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div></div></div><div><div style="">Is Sen. Ted Cruz constitutionally eligible to run for President of the United States?</div><div style=""><br clear="none"></div><div style="">-------------------------------------</div><div style=""><br clear="none"></div><div style="">Section 1, Article II of the United States Constitution.</div><div style=""><br clear="none"></div><div><span style=""><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii">http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii</a></span></div><div style=""><br clear="none"></div><div style=""><span style="">"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."</span></div><div style=""><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="">-------------------------------------</div><div style=""><br clear="none"></div><div style=""><span style="">Sen. Ted Cruz's birth certificate shows he was born in Canada in 1970. It was released exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.</span></div><div style=""><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div style=""><span style=""><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"
href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130818-canada-born-ted-cruz-became-a-citizen-of-that-country-as-well-as-u.s..ece?nclick_check=1">http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130818-canada-born-ted-cruz-became-a-citizen-of-that-country-as-well-as-u.s..ece?nclick_check=1</a></span></div><div style=""><span><CRUZ_0819NAT_32638724.JPG></span></div><div style="">-------------------------------------</div><div style=""><br clear="none"></div><div style="">Thoughts?</div><div style=""><br clear="none"><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium;">There's room at
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