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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>+1 from me, and I think Paul is a +1 as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Dredge<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 17, 2013 8:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Rumelhart; Tom Hansen<br><b>Cc:</b> viz<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Question, V-Peeps . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tom wrote:<br><Is Sen. Ted Cruz constitutionally eligible to run for President of the United States?><br><br>Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:24:36 -0700<br>From: <a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Question, V-Peeps . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>It was in an earlier post of mine.  Here is the quote from Wikipedia I posted:<br><br>From Wikipedia:<br><br>"<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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" target="_blank" title="Congressional Research Service">Congressional Research Service</a> report stated that<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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" target="_blank" title=Naturalization>naturalization</a>" to become a U.S. citizen.<sup id="ecxyiv3161951477cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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" target="_blank" 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."<br><br>Here is the link to the "natural born citizen" Wikipedia page: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause</a><br><br>Here is a link to the actual report (as cited by the Wikipedia page): <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42097.pdf">http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42097.pdf</a><br><br>I haven't read the report in it's entirety yet.<br><br>Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style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