Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be PresidentAt least according to the most plausible constitutional interpretation

Feb. 8 2016  Eric Posner

 

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Ted Cruz greets voters at a Mexican restaurant where he spoke on Feb. 7, 2016, in Keene, New Hampshire.

 

With Ted Cruz the victor of the first contest of the GOP nominating calendar, we can no longer avoid the question mischievously posed by Donald Trump: Is Cruz ineligible to be president? Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. The Constitution says that only a “natural born citizen” can be president. Is Cruz a natural born citizen? (You may recall that before he attacked Cruz on this front, Trump spent months flogging a ludicrous version of this critique against President Obama, who was actually born in the United States, unlike Cruz.)

 

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