Senator Ted Cruz Constitutionally Ineligible For Office of President
Posted: Monday, January 18, 2016 by Pezzonovante in Labels: Constitutional Ineligibility, Sen. Ted Cruz
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While the debate rages over whether Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) meets the natural born citizen requirement found in Article II, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, Cruz has shown that he is constitutionally ineligible to serve as president.
Setting aside the natural born citizen question raised by his Canadian birth, statements by Cruz show that he has little regard for the limitations the U.S. Constitution places on the Office of President, and that, if elected, he would violate his oath of office without compunction.
Oath of Office:
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
In the last Republican debate, Cruz, in answer to a question about jobs, seized upon the recent detainment of U.S. soldiers who had violated the territorial waters of Iran.
Photographs of captured U.S. soldiers on their knees with hands held in the air permeated the news media.
Sen. Ted Cruz couldn't resist.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAnlMHYRRM (2:53 - 3:55).
At (3:41 - 3:55) Cruz says the following:
"And I give you my word, if I am elected president, no serviceman or servicewoman will be forced to be on their knees in any nation that captures our fighting men and women will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America."
Would-be Commander-in-Chief Crazy Cruz is well nigh oblivious to a few constitutional facts.
Under the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war (Article I, Section 8) and the president is Commander-in-Chief only when armed forces are "called into the actual Service of the United States" (Article II, Section 2).
Sadly, Americans have become accustomed to referring to the president as Commander-in-Chief, when the president is only supposed to be Commander-in-Chief in very specific instances at very specific times (e.g., when the U.S. Congress declares war).
Because American foreign policy is highly interventionist, Americans have become inured to the perpetual state of war in which men of the ilk of Sen. Ted Cruz keep us.
Moreover, Cruz' foreign policy formulation includes the neoconservative tenet of American exceptionalism -- that is, America, because she is the exception to the rule (i.e., the rule of law), may conduct incursions into the sovereign territory of other nations, implement sanctions (acts of war), foment internal unrest, and start undeclared wars of aggression with impunity.
In Sen. Ted Cruz' worldview, any sovereign nation which challenges -- i.e., by placing invading forces on their knees -- the supposedly unchallengeable hegemony of the United States of America should feel the full force and fury (nuclear bombs) of the United States of America.
The three links below serve as an antidote to such utter nonsense.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/01/14/caught-with-our-pants-down-in-the-gulf/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/sen-mccain-furious-iran-treated-us-sailors-well/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/kuwait-bahrain/