January 14 ,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ , the Ridgewood blog once again is two steps ahead of the rest of the media . The Ted Cruz eligibility issue was first discussed in August 2013 on the Ridgewood blog following ,Mark Levin’s visit to Bookends for a book signing .
“Recent events are, however, very gratifying to me, as they tend to support the position I’ve had all along with respect to Cruz‘s foreign birth and resultant POTUS ineligibility. Moreover, Mark Levin’s daily response to all of this on his radio show has been an analytical train wreck, just as had his horribly oversized and nationally broadcast personal reaction to my related question to him at the Bookends booksigning event in August 2013 (which, as you know, I maintain constitutes actionable slander). Do you know?, the intellectual quality of the current analysis onCruz‘s predicament, as reflected in the news stories and opinion pieces about this issue and posted to FreeRepublic.com, and in the comments made on those stories and pieces by FR members who think the way I do, is really, really good! It has enabled me to sharpen my own thinking about the Constitutional term “natural-born citizen” in many important respects. It really is head and shoulders better than anything that was put out there about Obama during our 7-8 year national nightmare. This seems to suggest that the mainstream media embargo on this issue has finally been lifted, together with the widespread social taboo that can almost certainly be attributed to Obama’s skin color and the ridiculously large case of white man’s guilt he so clearly benefited from and continues to cultivate and exploit to this day. This is just one more signal service performed for our benefit by Candidate Trump. Cruz himself also deserves credit for not going ballistic or demagoguing the issue as Obama and his supporters did and have done so consistently (and effectively).”
Radio Talk Show Host Mark Levin Continues to Comment on interaction he had at Bookends over “natural-born Citizen.
FreeRepublic blocks Ted Cruz Eligibility Issue story re-posted from the Ridgewood blog
Mark Levin Addresses Ted Cruz Eligibility Issue posed by Ridgewood Resident at Bookends Book Signing
Mark Levin: Reader says not so fast Mark
https://theridgewoodblog.net/mark-levin-reader-says-not-so-fast-mark/
Mark Levin’s Visit to Bookends Revives old Controversy on eligibility requirements to run for or hold the office of President of the United States
Calgary is in Canada
If the man wanted to be an American then why did he wait so long to give up his Canadian citizenship?
Does the Constitution say all presidents must be born in the USA?
Article11 Section 1:”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 …” Constitutional scholars conclude that the framers meant born in the United.States and added the additional wording since many people at the time were born elsewhere as we were a country of immigrants. We may have a test case here and the need to define what this all means for present day and future candidates.
6:21, the constitution discriminates between natural-born citizens and naturalized citizens solely for purposes of POTUS and VPOTUS eligibility. Naturalized citizens, meaning individuals whose citizenship exists solely by virtue of their having met an applicable provision of one or another federal statute (i.e., a law enacted by Congress), are excluded. Congress being empowered under the U.S. Constitution only to “establish an uniform system of naturalization”, such laws are typically referred to as Naturalization Acts. The 70 to 75 percent of citizens who were born in the United States to two U.S. citizen parents are not covered by any Naturalization Act (meaning that Congress lacks the power to touch their right to citizenship) and, moreover, do not need to rely on the 14th Amendment to demonstrate domestic citizenship. These individuals came about their citizenship naturally, and need not rely on any one or another provision of positive federal or state law to prove their valid membership in the American polity. Often referred to simply as “natives”, in our federal Constitution they are denominated as “natural-born Citizens”. The only two presidents who were absent from the ranks of this very large group are Chester A. Arthur (born in Vermont, and not in Canada as his political detractors claimed, BUT… Chester had a father (William Arthur) who was actually not naturalized until more than a decade after Chester became president, and this closely-held secret was not discovered until 2005) and Barack H. Obama (who blatantly and in broad daylight was given a total pass for his foreign father by the powers-that-be because of a titanic case of white guilt). Cruz seeing a rare opening in the strictures of the Constitution, he is trying to drive a Mack Truck right through it. If he succeeds in being elected president, the natural-born Citizen clause will have been shredded and left without any unique meaning. The term “natural” at that point can frankly be lined right out of the text, leaving only “born citizen” as Hamilton had initially suggested only to be overruled in committee in favor of the present term.
Ironically Cruz is a Constitution “originalist”… the framers, based on the time, kept it murky in spite of Alexander Hamilton’s efforts… Article II, section 1, clause 5 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.” It has been interpreted both ways over the years but the original intent appears as a point in time basis. Martin Van Buren was the first natural born citizen but Hamilton’s intention was to make being born on US soil a requirement. Murky but enough to create a legal nightmare if the reader of Green Eggs and Ham on the senate floor progresses.
James, could you fix the link to the below blog posting? The link you provide in this thread currently leads to a different post than the headline suggests. Also, would you please provide a link to the original story posted in early August 2013 discussing Mark Levin’s then – upcoming book signing event at Bookends? Comments to that post discuss Cruz’s potential ineligibility and the need for Levin to start taking the issue seriously by answering related questions from his listeners and the people who buy his books.
“FreeRepublic blocks Ted Cruz Eligibility Issue story re-posted from the Ridgewood blog”
Well James, I’ve never used profanities on this Blog (cap B intended) before. That said, I was so happy to see Trump “BITCH” slap this canuck hoser loser (lower case intended) about his remark about “NY values”… What a p. o. s. (I hope this acronym is not profanity)….