23-03-2015 22:53

Canada-born Cruz eligible for US presidency

Republican White House hopeful Ted Cruz is eligible to run for the US presidency despite being born in Canada, US legal experts believe. The US Constitution provides three criteria to be president: a person must be at least 35 years old, have resided in the US more than 14 years and be a "natural-born" citizen. If all children born on US soil are natural citizens, what about children born to American parents abroad? In an article published in March in the Harvard Law Review, lawyers Ne
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