{"id":7688,"date":"2015-12-15T14:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T23:28:02","slug":"born-near-the-u-s-a-is-not-enough-ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/born-near-the-u-s-a-is-not-enough-ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Born Near the U.S.A. but Not Near Enough to be President of the U.S.A.  &#8211;  Ted Cruz&#8230; One Bad President Establishes Another Bad Precedent  !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yTJOerByZ_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 Born Near the U.S.A.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>One\u00a0Bad\u00a0President <\/strong><strong>Establishes Another Bad Precedent <\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Compromising\u00a0America&#8217;s\u00a0National Security<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By Scott Rohter, December 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He says all the right things, the junior Senator from Texas does&#8230; He says he would repeal Obama Care if he was elected. He says he would\u00a0rescind every illegal executive order that President Obama\u00a0has signed including the Nuclear Treaty with Iran. He says he would appoint strict constitutionalists to the Supreme Court. He says he would abolish the IRS and institute a flat tax&#8230; It all sounds great&#8230; In fact he sounds like he\u00a0might be a\u00a0pretty good Supreme Court Justice if he actually believes everything he says, but does he actually believe everything he says?\u00a0He was born in Canada to a Cuban Canadian immigrant. He is not a Natural Born Citizen because he was not born in the U.S.A. and he is not eligible to be the President. (Article 2 Section 1)<\/p>\n<p>Two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right\u00a0and you can&#8217;t fix what&#8217;s wrong with\u00a0our\u00a0country\u00a0by breaking the Constitution again. The Democrats did it for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and the Republicans\u00a0are trying to do\u00a0the same thing\u00a0right now for Ted Cruz in 2016.\u00a0 They are trying to establish a legal precedent that circumvents the Constitution and\u00a0that is what attorneys\u00a0always rely on whenever they try to do something that the Constitution prohibits them from doing.. It is called <em>Stare decisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Constitution declares in Article 2 Section 1 that you have to be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN of the United States in order to be the President of the United States.\u00a0President Obama isn&#8217;t a Natural Born Citizen regardless of where he was born because his father was not an American citizen.\u00a0 Ted Cruz is not a Natural Born Citizen either. \u00a0He was born in Canada and his father was both a Cuban and a Canadian at the\u00a0time that Senator Cruz was born, but his father\u00a0was not an American.\u00a0 Ted Cruz does not even offer up a phony birth certificate to claim that he was born in America like Barack Obama did.\u00a0 Why do you think Barack Obama furnished that Hawaiin Certificate of Live Birth if it doesn&#8217;t actually matter where the President of the United States was born?<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz freely admits that he was born in Calgary Alberta.\u00a0 That\u00a0makes him even less qualified to be President than Barack Obama is. Where will all of this legal precedent to\u00a0just ignore the\u00a0Constitution actually end? This\u00a0type of progressive incrementalism\u00a0is going\u00a0to destroy\u00a0our country. James Madison warned us about this. He wrote that <em>&#8220;More freedom has been lost as a result of progressive incrementalism than has been lost in catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.&#8221;<\/em> Ted Cruz\u00a0represents the next step in this progressive incrementalism. What is lost in all of this\u00a0hope and change\u00a0is\u00a0the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz was not born in the United States. He was born in\u00a0Alberta,\u00a0Canada and his\u00a0mother and father were\u00a0both legal residents of Canada at the time he was born.\u00a0In fact his parents\u00a0may have\u00a0both been citizens of Canada\u00a0at the time\u00a0he was born too as evidence has surfaced that their names appear on a list of eligible voters in Calgary around the same time that Senator Cruz was born, nevertheless Ted Cruz\u00a0is still running for the Office of President of the United States. The\u00a0more I\u00a0listen to\u00a0him the less I\u00a0believe\u00a0anything that he says especially the part about how much he loves and defends the United States Constitution.\u00a0How can he love and defend the United States Constitution when his very candidacy for the Office of President is an\u00a0affront to the Constitution?<\/p>\n<p>I am beginning to think that\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0doesn&#8217;t actually believe\u00a0anything he says either. At one of the\u00a0Presidential Debates he was asked a direct question about his eligibility to be President. He looked right into the camera and deliberately\u00a0mis-stated the facts regarding Natural Birth Citizenship. He\u00a0lied to\u00a0an entire nation when he implied that it makes a difference where\u00a0Donald Trump&#8217;s mother was born.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the record it does not matter where\u00a0a\u00a0candidate&#8217;s mother was born. It does not matter where\u00a0Donald Trump&#8217;s mother was born and it does not matter where Ted Cruz&#8217;s mother was born. What matters is not where their mother was born, but where they were born, and it matters whether or not their mother AND THEIR FATHER were\u00a0both citizens at the time\u00a0they were born. While it\u00a0may be\u00a0true that\u00a0Ted Cruz&#8217;s\u00a0mother was\u00a0a citizen of the United States,\u00a0it is\u00a0just as\u00a0true\u00a0that his father was not a citizen of the United States when Senator Cruz was born. Therefore Ted Cruz is not eligible to be the President of the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s parents were both citizens at the time he was born and he\u00a0was born in New York City. Ted Cruz was born in Canada and while he claims to support the Constitution,\u00a0 he is completely\u00a0disregarding the Natural Born Citizen Clause in Article 2 Section 1. So is everyone else who is supporting Ted Cruz in his bid to become\u00a0the next President. It is a sad day in America when a Natural Born Citizen is deemed to be an outsider in his own country and two people who are not Natural Born Citizens are both deemed to be eligible to run for the Office of the President.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution says that you have to be a <strong>Natural Born Citizen\u00a0<\/strong>in order to be the President of the United States.\u00a0 That means that you have to be born in the United States\u00a0and your parents\u00a0both have to\u00a0be\u00a0citizens of the United States&#8230; not\u00a0one, but both.\u00a0\u00a0It does not matter where they were born,\u00a0but it does matter whether they were citizens or not.<\/p>\n<p>In Section 3 of the Naturalization Act of 1795 written less than ten years after the United States Constitution was adopted the\u00a0guiding\u00a0phrase used in the law was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~kdhist\/H105-documents-web\/week08\/naturalization1790.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the children of citizens&#8230;&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 The word\u00a0is plural not singular as some people would like to believe. It\u00a0seems to me like common sense that they chose to use the plural form of the\u00a0word.\u00a0\u00a0This is the type of common sense that characterized our Nation&#8217;s Founding and it still makes perfect sense in the dangerous world we live in today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it is true that there is no\u00a0definition\u00a0listed in the Constitution\u00a0for what it actually means to be a Natural Born Citizen, there is also no definition given in the Constitution for a lot of other things. For instance\u00a0we all know what the\u00a0definition of is&#8230; is, and this is in spite of whatever Bill Clinton&#8217;s said during his impeachment hearings. The definition of is&#8230; is not given in the Constitution. There are a lot of other words that are not defined in the Constitution including the definition of Justice, the definition of Domestic Tranquility, the definition of the Common Defense, the General Welfare, or the Blessings of Liberty, but the Founding Fathers knew what\u00a0all of those things\u00a0meant and they knew what a Natural\u00a0Born Citizen was too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0most commonly accepted definition of a Natural Born Citizen is found in Chapter 19 Section 212 &#8211; 215 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/vattel\/vattel_01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Law of Nations <\/a>by Emerich de Vattel. The Founding Founders\u00a0were very familiar with this\u00a0literary\u00a0treatise\u00a0because they often quoted from it\u00a0in addition to\u00a0using it as\u00a0a reference.\u00a0\u00a0If you are a Natural Born Citizen\u00a0it\u00a0means that you were born\u00a0in America to American parents. (Note the word parents is in the plural form). I did\u00a0not say born to\u00a0one American parent because the\u00a0Founding Fathers and our Nations early\u00a0laws and legal decisions all used the plural form of the word citizens \u00a0following a precedent set by Vattel. They all had\u00a0the kind of\u00a0wisdom and common sense that\u00a0is\u00a0entirely lacking from politics\u00a0and government today. <em>(Note: Born in America is understood to mean born on American soil anywhere in the world such as\u00a0an American embassy or an oversees possession or a territory like Arizona used to be when Barry Goldwater was born there.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The constitutional\u00a0requirement to be a Natural Born Citizen in order to be\u00a0the President and\u00a0Commander in Chief is probably the single most important qualification listed in the Constitution\u00a0to run for any office in America, but it is reserved only for\u00a0the highest office in the land.\u00a0This requirement\u00a0was established in Article 2 Section 1 in order\u00a0to\u00a0keep\u00a0our government\u00a0from ever being led by someone\u00a0with\u00a0mixed or dual loyalties\u00a0whose allegiance might be conflicted\u00a0or pledged\u00a0to another\u00a0set of principles which are not contained in\u00a0the\u00a0Constitution.\u00a0This requirement\u00a0for the Office of President was established before\u00a0the United States was\u00a0 even established and it was even hinted at in <a href=\"http:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Washington\/04-05-02-0251\" target=\"_blank\">a letter that John Jay wrote <\/a> to General George Washington on July 25, 1787 before the Constitution was completed.\u00a0Furthermore the requirement for the President of the United States to be a Natural Born Citizen is just as important today as it was\u00a0in 1787 when the Constitution was ratified.\u00a0 It is a common sense\u00a0measure\u00a0that\u00a0is there to help ensure that\u00a0America remains safe, now and in the future, and no\u00a0single person\u00a0running for the Office of\u00a0President is more important than that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8189\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hallaby-Lisa-and-Prince-Hamzah-with-King-Abdullah.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8189\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8189 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hallaby-Lisa-and-Prince-Hamzah-with-King-Abdullah.jpg\" alt=\"From right to left: The former Lisa Hallaby, King Abdullah, Prince Hamzah and his wife, Queen Rania\" width=\"740\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hallaby-Lisa-and-Prince-Hamzah-with-King-Abdullah.jpg 740w, https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hallaby-Lisa-and-Prince-Hamzah-with-King-Abdullah-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right to left: Queen Rania, Prince Hamzah and his bride, King Abdullah, and Queen Noor aka Lisa Hallaby formerly of Washington D.C.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course Canada does not pose a threat to the United States and hopefully\u00a0it never will, but it is still a foreign country and\u00a0Ted Cruz is still a candidate for the Office of President who was\u00a0 born in another country.\u00a0 He was born in Calgary, Alberta and he spent the first four years of his life in Canada as a Natural Born Canadian citizen before his\u00a0parents decided to get divorced and move back to the United States.\u00a0You can only be a Natural Born Citizen of one country in your lifetime\u00a0just like you can only be born in one country in your lifetime. You cant be born in two countries so you cant be a Natural Born Citizen of two countries. Since Ted Cruz\u00a0was a Natural\u00a0Born Citizen of Canada he can not be\u00a0a Natural Born Citizen of the United States no matter what\u00a0anyone else does on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0don&#8217;t deny\u00a0the fact that he is a U.S. citizen\u00a0by virtue of his mother&#8217;s citizenship at the time of his birth, but that is not the same thing as being a <strong>Natural Born Citizen.\u00a0 <\/strong>To be a Natural Born U.S. Citizen you have to be born\u00a0in the United States and your parents\u00a0both have to be\u00a0citizens of the United States at the time of your birth, but not only was Ted Cruz born in Canada&#8230; his father did not become an American citizen until thirty five years after his son was born.\u00a0 It is not enough for the President of the United States to\u00a0be a citizen of the United States. According to the Constitution he must be a Natural Born Citizen, and there is no manner of legal\u00a0maneuvering or process of naturalization that can turn someone who was not born\u00a0in the United States\u00a0or who has one parent who is not an American citizen at the time they were born into a Natural Born Citizen.\u00a0 If someone is a Natural Born Citizen\u00a0they\u00a0do not\u00a0need to be &#8220;naturalized&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8188\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hamzah-Prince-of-Jordan.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8188\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8188 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hamzah-Prince-of-Jordan-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Hamzah of Jordan\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hamzah-Prince-of-Jordan-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hamzah-Prince-of-Jordan.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Hamzah of Jordan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Founding Fathers put the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/charters\/constitution_transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Born Citizen Clause\u00a0<\/a> in the Constitution because they wanted to make\u00a0sure that no one with mixed\u00a0or dual loyalties would ever become\u00a0President.\u00a0\u00a0That was the clear intent and the obvious\u00a0purpose of the Natural Born Citizen Clause, and while the patriotism of the junior Senator from Texas has never been in question we might not be able to say the same thing about the next candidate\u00a0for President\u00a0who was born in a foreign country or\u00a0whose\u00a0parents are not both American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Just consider the actions of the current President who has occupied the Oval Office for the last eight years&#8230; His father was a Muslim and his grandfather was a Muslim.\u00a0Consider how much worse his eight years as our Commander in Chief might have been if he was actually a\u00a0Muslim.\u00a0 Now consider the four Jordanian born children of Queen Noor, the former Lisa Hallaby of Washington D.C. She is the American born daughter of a Syrian-American father and a Swedish-American mother.. She married King Hussein of Jordan in June\u00a01978 and together they raised four children&#8230; all Muslims&#8230; and all born in Jordan. Would you feel the same way\u00a0if Prince Hamsah\u00a0was running for President\u00a0instead of Ted Cruz? If not then by what legal means\u00a0could you prevent him from running after you have\u00a0opened the door for Barack Obama to become President and then opened it even wider for Ted Cruz to become President?<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0campaign of Ted Cruz to become the\u00a0Republican nominee for President in 2016 represents\u00a0the\u00a0continuation of a very dangerous trend and a very serious threat to America&#8217;s long term national security interests not just\u00a0in the next election\u00a0but in every subsequent election hereafter. This is not about Ted Cruz. It is not even about Barack Obama, but just like the junior Senator from Illinois who became America\u2019s 44<sup>th<\/sup> President contrary to the clear intent of the Constitution and in spite of the fact that his father was not an American citizen, Ted Cruz shares this dubious distinction with Barack Obama&#8230; Neither of their fathers were American citizens at the time they were born therefore neither one of them is eligible to be the President of the United States. The Democrats\u00a0and the Republicans do not seem to mind the fact that they are ignoring\u00a0the Constitution and the Original Intent\u00a0of the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n<p>Government leaders know that if they keep repeating the same old lie over and over again\u00a0that the\u00a0majority of\u00a0people will begin to believe it.\u00a0 The American media wasn\u2019t the first to\u00a0figure this out\u2026\u00a0 The lie they\u00a0keep repeating is that\u00a0Barack Obama, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are all eligible to be our President. Even\u00a0when\u00a0the media doesn&#8217;t\u00a0say it in so many words, by just not\u00a0challenging their qualifications to be President the\u00a0media\u00a0is actually giving credence to the idea that they can be President when in fact\u00a0they cannot.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox Business Channel finally asked\u00a0a question about\u00a0the eligibility of Ted Cruz in the January 14th debate in South Carolina, but Ted Cruz\u00a0 made jokes about it and obfuscated\u00a0while\u00a0Donald Trump failed to hit the ball out of the park when he had the opportunity. The issue is not whether Ted&#8217;s mother was born in America or Donald Trump&#8217;s mother was not. The issue is whether the candidates themselves were born in America and whether there parents were both American citizens at the time they were born. Both of Donald Trump&#8217;s parents were American citizens and he was born in the U.S.A.\u00a0One of Ted Cruz parents was not\u00a0an American citizen and\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0was\u00a0born in Canada. Donald Trump meets all three criteria to be a Natural Born Citizen, but\u00a0Ted Cruz fails on two of the three counts and it is not a laughing matter.. When he is doing something wrong I guess Ted Cruz just tries to make people laugh.<\/p>\n<p>While the\u00a0definition of what it means to be a Natural Born Citizen has been hotly debated from time to time over the last two\u00a0hundred years\u00a0thanks to\u00a0the\u00a0 United States Supreme Court\u00a0the actual meaning has been watered\u00a0down\u00a0so much\u00a0 by <a href=\"http:\/\/\u201cFreedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.\u201d \u2013James Madison, reprisal by Editor\" target=\"_blank\">progressive incrementalism\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0that it means just about\u00a0anything\u00a0that anyone wants it to mean. This is a grave mistake to make in\u00a0an age of international terrorism.\u00a0According to some\u00a0current legal opinions any one of the four Jordanian children of Queen Noor could go on to become\u00a0an America\u00a0President if they wanted to run, but that is not what a Natural Born Citizen\u00a0is. In the strictest\u00a0definition of the term and the one\u00a0which affords our nation the greatest safety and security in the future,\u00a0a Natural Born Citizen is someone who was born in the United States and has two American parents..<\/p>\n<p>At least Barack Obama offered proof that he was born in America. While some\u00a0people\u00a0have questioned the validity of\u00a0his proof,\u00a0at least he offered something to show that he was born in the U.S.A. Ted Cruz however offers no proof. In fact he freely admits that he was born in Canada. That fact alone should immediately disqualify him from consideration in the 2016 Presidential primary no matter how much you\u00a0like his positions on the issues.\u00a0\u00a0The Natural Born Citizen Clause was not just written for Ted Cruz by the way. It applies to the children of Queen Noor or to anyone else who was born in a foreign\u00a0country, or has only one American parent, who aspires to be the President of the United States. The fact that\u00a0Eleanor Cruz\u00a0waited\u00a0until\u00a0her son\u00a0was four years old to move back to\u00a0the United States\u00a0and Raphael Cruz waited another thirty-five years\u00a0until he\u00a0became an American citizen\u00a0plus the fact that Ted Cruz did not renounce his Canadian birthright citizenship until just last year\u00a0when he was 44 years old\u00a0when he decided to run for President\u00a0disqualifies\u00a0him as a serious candidate for the\u00a0White House. However it does completely\u00a0validate the legitimate concerns that the Founding Fathers had when they included the Natural Born Citizen\u00a0Clause\u00a0in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Democrats are jeopardizing America\u2019s national security. As usual the Democrats are leading the way, but Republicans aren\u2019t too far behind. The Democrats nominated Barack Obama in 2008 knowing full well that his campaign would stretch the limits of the Natural Born Citizen Clause, but with\u00a0two terms now firmly under his belt\u00a0and somewhat of a legal precedent having already been established the Republicans are considering two more ineligible candidates for President at this time. They are Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.\u00a0 On this point there is not much difference between the two major political Parties. Both Rubio and Cruz are just as ineligible to be\u00a0our next\u00a0President as Barack Obama is eligible to be\u00a0our current President. Now if the obvious fact that Barack Obama is the President seems to preclude all further discussion on the subject as a fete accompli, let me remind you that just because something\u00a0is, doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s right. You remember what Bill Clinton said don&#8217;t you?\u00a0 <em>&#8220;It all depends on what the definition of is&#8230; is.&#8221;<\/em> Neither political Party is following the Constitution and neither political Party\u00a0feels any compunction about compromising America\u2019s long term national security interests in order to win the White House. Voting for either Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz\u00a0would merely validate the last eight unlawful\u00a0years of Barack Obama, and that&#8217;s\u00a0exactly\u00a0what they want you to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If you like this article then please share it and support a candidate for President whose\u00a0election would not compromise the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/is-ted-cruz-the-republican-partys-answer-to-barack-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/is-ted-cruz-the-republican-partys-answer-to-barack-obama.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/full-disclosure-the-consequences-of-continuing-to-support-ted-cruz-for-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/full-disclosure-the-consequences-of-continuing-to-support-ted-cruz-for-president.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/ted-cruz-decides-to-run-for-president-two-constitutional-wrongs-dont-make-the-texas-senators-presidential-aspirations-right.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/ted-cruz-decides-to-run-for-president-two-constitutional-wrongs-dont-make-the-texas-senators-presidential-aspirations-right.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Corroborating Source Material<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/vattel\/vattel_01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/vattel\/vattel_01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/110th-congress\/senate-resolution\/511\/text\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/110th-congress\/senate-resolution\/511\/text<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourwinds10.net\/siterun_data\/government\/us_constitution\/news.php?q=1308252582\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fourwinds10.net\/siterun_data\/government\/us_constitution\/news.php?q=1308252582<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~kdhist\/H105-documents-web\/week08\/naturalization1790.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~kdhist\/H105-documents-web\/week08\/naturalization1790.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/born-near-the-u-s-a-is-not-enough-ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-states\/\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" data-action=\"like\" data-font=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"125\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ted-Cruz-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail-excerpt\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>He says all the right things the junior Senator from Texas does, but he wasn\u2019t born in the United States. He was born in Alberta, Canada. The Constitution says that you have to be born in the United States to be the President of the United States. It\u2019s only common sense isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[687,686,611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":252,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}