![]() ![]() The basis for the view is an examination of history and the original public meaning of this part of the Constitution,” University of Arizona Constitutional law professor Toni Massaro told AZ Fact Check. citizen mother - as Cruz was - even though he was born in Canada. “The stronger view is that ‘natural-born citizen’ includes children born to a U.S. The legal consensus would appear to deem Cruz eligible to be president, as most legal scholars use historical context to interpret the intentions of the constitution's framers. In 2008, John McCain's eligibility briefly became an issue because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. “It sounds like what Cruz is saying is it’s self-evident but not textually defined in the Constitution,” said Arizona State University law professor David Gartner.Ĭruz isn’t the first presidential hopeful to address his eligibility to run for president. Supreme Court ruling interpreting its meaning. citizens born abroad are considered natural-born citizens.īut the Constitution does not define “natural born,” and there has yet to be a U.S. Cruz claimed during the debate that the law is clear that U.S. from foreign influence, according to Alexander Hamilton’s federalist papers.Ĭruz’s birth certificate shows he was born in Calgary, Alberta, to a mother who was an American citizen, which makes him an American citizen by birth. The intent of this clause was to protect the U.S. “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.” Constitution sets the eligibility requirements for the office of president: citizen, the question of whether he is a “natural-born citizen” as required by the Constitution has prompted some scholarly debate without much of a definitive answer. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump during the first GOP debate of 2016, Trump questioned Cruz’s eligibility to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.Īlthough Cruz is a U.S. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT: Whether the Constitution clearly draws out a definition of a natural-born citizen.ĪNALYSIS: Amid the banter between presidential hopefuls Sen. citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen.” THE COMMENT: “But the facts and the law here are really quite clear. ![]()
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