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What Do President Obama and Senator Cruz Have In Common?  They Are Both Not Natural Born                                                                    Citizens                                                          By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.                                                               February 20, 2015 Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 provides: “ No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the of...

  Obama May Be a Naturalized Born Citizen but Not a Natural Born Citizen by: Mario Apuzzo, Esq. "The Constitution of the United States recognizes the division of the people into the two classes named by William Blackstone - natural born and naturalized citizens." Rep. Wilson Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. 1116 (1866). The Constitution calls these two types of citizens, "Citizens of the United States."  All the "Citizens of the United States" are therefore comprised of either those who Article II calls "natural born Citizens" (are not naturalized) or those which the Constitution, treaties, and Congressional Acts call “Citizens of the United States” (not being natural born must be naturalized).  The "natural born Citizen" clause is nothing more than the people of the United States expressing their power of self-preservation.  Hence, only a “natural born Citizen” is eligible to be President under Article II, Section 1, Cl...

Article II "Natural Born Citizen" Means Unity of Citizenship and Sole Allegiance At Birth by: Mario Apuzzo, Esq. Written: April 23, 2009 Reposted: November 18, 2010 Article II of our Constitution has a lot to say about how a would-be President is born. "Natural born Citizen" status requires not only birth on U.S. soil but also birth to parents who are both U.S. citizens by birth or naturalization. This unity of jus soli (soil) and jus sanguinis (descent) in the child at the time of birth assures that the child is born with sole allegiance (obligation of fidelity and obedience to government in consideration for protection that government gives (U.S. v. Kuhn, 49 F.Supp.407, 414 (D.C.N.Y)) and loyalty to the United States and that no other nation can lay any claim to the child's (later an adult) allegiance and loyalty. Indeed, under such birth circumstances, no other nation can legally or morally demand any military or political obligations from that pe...