By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

The first hat has been thrown in the ring and it may well be THE most Constitutional hat there is out there.

With a Tweet…Ted Cruz has made his intentions known.

“I’m running for President and I hope to earn your support.”

There are two very important elements of that short tweet…first, that Ted Cruz IS running for the highest office in our great nation and second…that he hopes to EARN our support.

He doesn’t EXPECT it…he doesn’t just WANT it…he hopes to EARN it and THAT is more than just refreshing…it is downright honorable.

But wait…He was born in CANADA wasn’t he? His FATHER wasn’t a U.S. citizen…right?

Yes, there are those who are and already have come out against a Ted Cruz run for the White House based on those things and their talking points are set…

“Cruz In, BUT NOT ELIGIBLE.”

“A ‘natural born citizen’ is a person born of citizen parents.
Ted is not a ‘natural born citizen’ since Ted’s father was not a citizen at the time of Ted’s birth. Our Constitution requires a candidate must be a ‘natural born citizen’. TED IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO THE PRESIDENCY.”

Many such dissenters I believe are liberals wearing Conservative’s clothing but some, as the one who posted the above comments yesterday on Facebook are simply misinformed.

Ted Cruz IS ELIGIBLE.

Let’s examine the meat of the talking point against his eligibility shall we?

The first line is a dead giveaway…“A ‘natural born citizen’ is a person born of citizen parents.”

This comes directly from Vattel’s “Laws of Nations,” a book written in the mid 1700’s as a guide on how to preserve a monarchy. A MONARCHY…of all things.

Did our founders read the book? Yes. Did they USE that definition of a natural born citizen? Well, let’s put it this way…why on earth would they have used a definition of natural born citizen meant to preserve a monarchy when it was a monarchy we were fighting a war against to create a nation that would never BE a monarchy?

There is, however, more to it than just that.

In our Constitution, where one qualification to BE the president is that one must be a natural born citizen…there is absolutely NO definition given of what a natural born citizen is. In fact…there is absolutely no definition of natural born citizen in ANY of our founding documents.

And don’t go quoting Minor v Happersett either as your definition because THAT quote, nearly identical to the one above, is contained in a written OPINION regarding a case being heard by the Supreme Court on   an interpretation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…it was a VOTING rights case and is NOT a Supreme Court DECISION on natural born citizenship or ANY citizenship for that matter.

The cold hard truth is that there has never been a decision rendered by the Supreme Court on natural born citizenship as the highest court in the land has never entertained such a case and any written opinion in ANY case heard by the Supreme Court is not considered the law of the land for if that was the case…dissenting opinions would negate any decision made by the high court.

Therefore, to make one’s argument against Cruz’s eligibility a quote from a book designed to preserve a European monarchy is simply a non-starter.

There is however…some law regarding natural born citizenship and it is this…

The 1940 Nationality Act.

“In the absence of such legitimation or adjudication , the child, whether born before or after the effective date of this Act, if the mother had the nationality of the United States at the time of the child’s birth , and had previously resided in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, shall be held to have acquired at birth her nationality status.”

The Act further states clearly that those born either within the United States or outside the United States (the latter being of note to Ted Cruz) to at least one parent (at least ONE parent) who was a United States citizen at the time of that child’s birth allows the conference of that citizen parent’s United States citizenship to the child.

While the Act of 1940 has been amended several times…the particular law in effect between 1952 and 1986 which covers Ted Cruz’s birth in 1970 shows that a child born either inside or outside the United States must have a (that would be “A” and not two) citizen parent who resided in the United States for at least 10 years, including five after the age of 14, in order to be considered a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

Cruz’s mother more than qualifies and thus…so too does Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz.

While Cruz may not meet some people’s individual misguided interpretation of NBC…he DOES INDEED meet the qualifications as set by LAW and that’s what matters.

But what of his Canadian birth certificate?

First…let’s be aware that Cruz also had a U.S. birth certificate but the Canadian one was a simple formality. ANY child born on Canadian soil is issued a Canadian birth certificate…call it a birthday present and don’t let the door hit ya where the doctor slapped ya on the way out.

Cruz wasn’t even aware of the Canadian certificate and officially and lawfully renounced any such attached citizenship promptly a couple of years ago when he was made aware of its existence.

Not only is Ted Cruz a United States citizen and has been since the moment he was born but, he is also considered…BY LAW…to be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN which makes him perfectly eligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States of America.

The candidacy of Ted Cruz will be an uphill battle as he will face a myriad of Republican opponents and chief among them will be the GOP establishment itself who detesst Cruz and will align against him at every turn.

Therefore, if we want to see a NOMINEE Cruz next year…it is up to We the People to make it happen because the GOP will throw THEIR support, especially their financial support behind a RINO rather that behind Constitutional Conservative Cruz.

It will take a highly motivated grassroots Conservative movement to get Cruz the nomination in 2016 and the backing of huge, well-heeled donors as well but it CAN and SHOULD be done. Just one short year from now, we will be staring presidential primaries squarely in the face and only by winning one after another can we secure a Ted Cruz nomination despite the best efforts of the GOP establishment to derail him.

Regardless of who the liberals put up…I can’t think of a better opponent, especially during next year’s debate season, than Ted Cruz nor can I think of a better person to right our nation than a PRESIDENT Ted Cruz.

And the timing of that announcement, the date Cruz chose, was no random thing.

For now, I will support the candidacy of Ted Cruz for President of the United States and grassroots willing, I will support him all the way to the White House but should another become the eventual nominee…I will support that nominee as I believe Cruz will also because, to vote for a 3rd party candidate or write in Cruz should he not become that nominee would be the same as ensuring the election of a liberal in 2016…something we can ill afford to do.

While his detractors (liberals and RINOs alike) say he’s too bold…too brash…I say so too is our Constitution and so too has been this nation. We must once again face our enemies, both foreign and domestic with the bold brashness that makes our allies trust us and those enemies fear us if we are to relight that shining city on a hill for the whole world to see.

For MORE on the announcement by Ted Cruz…Please read and share Diane Sori’s Op-Ed below!!!

Op-ed:
Ted Cruz Announces He’s Running and the Naysayers Gather Like Vultures to a Feast
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on CPR Worldwide Media

“I’m running for President and I hope to earn your support!”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz announces his 2016 run for the presidency

He’s the first official candidate to declare out of more than a dozen high-profile Republicans considering running for president…and if we cannot have LTC Allen West, Ted Cruz is the next best thing. Announcing his intentions in a 30-second video embedded in a tweet released at 12:09 AM Monday morning, TEA Party favorite Ted Cruz is everything Republicans should be but sadly are NOT…that is if he does NOT go so far in pandering to the ubber religious right…the ones with their ‘better a muslim we know than a Mormon we don’t know’ attitude that helped get Obama re-elected…that he actually…dare I say it…starts shaking hands with the left. (See Ted Cruz’s tweet released video announcement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulzfbe6H5qY)

READ DIANE’S FULL OP-ED BY CLICKING HERE!!