[chaosagent]

Because McCain was born on base and it was declared US Soil. My son was born in a German hospital.

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McCain was not born on base. The base hospital was still under construction.

He was born in a Panamanian hospital on Panama soil.

[Perdogg]

So? He was born of the realm therefore nbC.

[aruanan]

McCain was not born on base. The base hospital was still under construction.

He was born in a Panamanian hospital on Panama soil.

Not according to his mother. Besides, the Panama Canal Zone was U.S. territory. Persons born of two U.S. citizens in the Canal Zone were granted statutory U.S. citizenship at birth under the Naturalization Act of 1795. In 1905, the Supreme Court ruled that since the Canal Zone was unincorporated territory, those children born there to two U.S. citizens only became U.S. nationals, not citizens, Later, though, in 1937, Congress reversed the Supreme Court's 1905 ruling by passing legislation that granted both statutory and declaratory born citizenship to those born in the Canal Zone after February 26, 1904 to at least one U.S. citizen parent and did so retroactively to all children born of at least one U.S. citizen in the Canal Zone. John McCain was born in the Canal Zone.

[DiogenesLamp]

McCain was not born on base. The base hospital was still under construction.

He was born in a Panamanian hospital on Panama soil.

Then how did his birth get recorded as having been delivered by a military doctor assigned to the Canal zone?