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In reply to the discussion: Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but those are the reports we have. I have no idea if mom was a foreign citizen voting in local elections, before or after he was born, which would mean no issue. She would still be a US Citizen.
If she voted in federal elections BEFORE he was born... and that is part of question.
The issue of natural born citizen is also to be solved.
But as I said, he is fine, he is a republican. This, I doubt, will end up in any bloody court, even if it should.
For starters we need to clarify the 18th century principle of the matter of birth. Ever since we had some folks write that document International law has changed. Now it recognizes citizenship by blood (aka mom is American), or by geographic location Why if you are born in a Mexican Aircraft in a US Airport, for example, you could claim Mexican citizenship.
In the 18th century that second was not present in common law.
This natural born is a principle of common law going back to Magna Carta... but even the brits have modernized their birth and citizenship issues.
With McCain there was strictly something to it. He was not born in US Territory as understood in the 18th century. Well Cruz definitely was not.