{"id":2465,"date":"2016-01-07T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:39:18","slug":"everybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/everybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody knows that Ted Cruz is a citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>So Donald Trump is now questioning whether Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen.<\/p>\n<p>I have a question for him and others who think this is a matter worthy of discussion or investigation.<\/p>\n<p>If he was not born a citizen, when and how did he become one? Because it seems pretty settled that he is <em>now<\/em> a citizen. He has voted, applied for Social Security, and been elected to several offices. Since he never went through a naturalization process, how did he become a citizen? Magic?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that he was born a citizen, naturally born, to use the constitutional wording. And everyone knows that.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the history of this country people have been born abroad to American citizen parents and no one has questioned their citizenship. I think that&#8217;s pretty settled law.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree? Disagree? I welcome your comments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-send=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4419877247826466\";\n\/* 336x280, created 7\/26\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2207044504\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Click here to visit the Liberty Musings <a href=\"..\/\">conservative politics<\/a> home page.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"quickshare-container\">\r\n\t<ul class=\"quickshare-genericons monochrome quickshare-effect-expand\">\r\n\t\t<li class=\"quickshare-share\">Share:<\/li> \r\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Feverybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen%2F&amp;t=Everybody+knows+that+Ted+Cruz+is+a+citizen+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><span class=\"quickshare-facebook\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Feverybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen%2F&amp;text=Everybody+knows+that+Ted+Cruz+is+a+citizen+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Twitter\"><span class=\"quickshare-twitter\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Feverybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=So+Donald+Trump+is+now+questioning+whether+Ted+Cruz+is+a+natural+born+citizen.+I+have+a+question+for+him+and+others+who+think+this+is+a+matter+worthy+of+discussion+or+investigation.+If+he+was+not+born+a+citizen%2C%26hellip%3B\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Pinterest\"><span class=\"quickshare-pinterest\">Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Feverybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen%2F&amp;title=Everybody+knows+that+Ted+Cruz+is+a+citizen&amp;source=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog&amp;summary=So+Donald+Trump+is+now+questioning+whether+Ted+Cruz+is+a+natural+born+citizen.+I+have+a+question+for+him+and+others+who+think+this+is+a+matter+worthy+of+discussion+or+investigation.+If+he+was+not+born+a+citizen%2C%26hellip%3B\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"quickshare-linkedin\">Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Feverybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Google+\"><span class=\"quickshare-googleplus\">Google+<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"mailto:?subject=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog:+Everybody+knows+that+Ted+Cruz+is+a+citizen&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Feverybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share via Email\"><span class=\"quickshare-email\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Donald Trump is now questioning whether Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen. I have a question for him and others who think this is a matter worthy of discussion or investigation. If he was not born a citizen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/everybody-knows-that-ted-cruz-is-a-citizen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[1125,1055,1126,455],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republican-presidential-candidates","tag-citizenship","tag-donald-trump","tag-natural-born-citizen","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}