Ah, but they did. They thought they might be able to screw McCain on a technicality so they tried to say since he was born in the Panama Canal Zone he was not an NBC. Of course, since he was born on a US Military base, his Father was a navy officer (later and admiral I think), and both his parents were NBCs, the charged didn't go anywhere AND, IIRC, he displayed his LFBC on the floor of the Senate.
“Of course, since he was born on a US Military base”
Just a small correction: The base hospital that McCain was supposed to have been born in was not built until after his birth. He was not NBC because he was born in a foreign country. Sorry to burst your bubble.
John McCain was not born on a U.S. military base. He was born in a civilian hospital in the city of Colon, Republic of Panama.
The U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs manual stipulates:
7 FAM 1131.6-2 Eligibility for Presidency
(TL:CON-68; 04-01-1998)
a. It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural-born citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.
(...)
d.(...) In any event, the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes.
“he displayed his LFBC on the floor of the Senate.”
Odd how this never actually happened but almost four years later people keep saying that it did.
The amount of misinformation on this issue that keeps getting repeated is staggering.