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Damn. I'm hoping he can make a run in 2016 and Democrats make just as big of a deal about him being born in Canada to an American mother that the birthers did to Obama.
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  • He can't make a run, because he actually WAS born in Canada.

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  • Ehh, John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone but he still ran.

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  • But he was born on a military base, right? Doesn't that count as American territory?

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  • Yes it does.

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  • It's debatable. I honestly don't know. That part of the Constitution has been bent every which way.

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  • Upon looking it up, apparently being born on American soil doesn't matter if both of your parents are already citizens. I just assumed that American citizenship laws were similar to Canada, but it turns out they're much less strict (surprisingly enough).

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  • ...to an American mother, which makes him an American citizen.

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  • Not a natural-born citizen, though. You have to be born on American soil to qualify for that.

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  • [quote]So what is a "natural born" citizen? The Constitution doesn’t specifically say. In 2008, we reviewed research and polled several legal experts. The consensus was that someone is a "natural born" citizen if they have citizenship at birth and don’t have to go through a naturalization process to become a citizen. If that’s the definition, then Cruz is a natural born citizen by being born to an American mother and having her citizenship at birth. (This same logic would apply to Obama, even if he were born in another country, which he wasn’t.)[/quote]

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  • Damn, your requirements for natural citizenship are more liberal than Canada. Oh well, thanks for keeping him away from us, if things had been different he's probably be on Harper's cabinet right now.

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  • Cruz is a natural born American. And I don't know why these rules are more liberal than they are in Canada. All you need is Canadian citizenship to be a public official. We've had multiple Prime Ministers that were born outside of Canada to non-Canadian parents. Due to the nature of our system citizenship opens up every public office. Not so in the United States.

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  • The rules for [i]natural-born[/i] citizenship are more strict in Canada, but since that's not necessary to hold office it doesn't really matter. I was referring specifically to children being born on foreign soil, our laws are much more convoluted in that regard, regardless of whether or not your parents were already citizens.

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