To: 2MAR$ who wrote (34360 ) 3/20/2013 6:16:31 PM From: longnshort Respond to Feinstein history majorAmerican Whig-Cliosophic Society 's Debate Panel won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship . [12] In 1992, he was named Princeton's Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton). [12] In 1991 he and his partner came in second to Austan Goolsbee and partner David Gray. Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship . [13] James Madison : "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers." [14] [15] Harvard Law School , graduating with high honors in 1995. [16] Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott . He was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the United States, and had the longest tenure in Texas history.law clerk to William Rehnquist , Chief Justice of the United States , and J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit . [17] Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States. [18] District of Columbia v. Heller , Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down. [19] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit .[ citation needed ]
