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To: SatinDoll
There have been many Freepers, born in the Canal Zone, who’ve posted here that they have always known that they are not eligible to be President. For the record, neither is John McCain.

Not settled law. Senate resolution 511 passed saying he was, including a joint legal opinion by Tribe and Olson. The Senate had no business passing such a resoultion, but McCain was nominated and on the ballot without a challenge from the Dems or the GOP.

The issue needs to go to SCOTUS for resolution. Anything else is mere speculation.

6 posted on 06/01/2011 7:54:46 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Senate resolution 511 was illegal and unconstitutional. I suggest you read the Constitution thoroughly. Screw Tribe and Olson - only God knows how much Soros paid them.

To alter the Constitution requires two-thirds of the States approval. It can take years to make changes or additions.


8 posted on 06/01/2011 8:01:22 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: kabar

McCain’s case is most certainly settled law. McCain gets his citizenship via the Immigration and Nationality Act — “by statute.”

Sec. 301. [8 U.S.C. 1401] The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(c) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person;

Sec. 303. [8 U.S.C. 1403] Persons born in the Canal Zone or the Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904

(b) Any person born in the Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this Act, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States employed by the Government of the United States or by the Panama Railroad Company, or its successor in title, is declared to be a citizen of the United States.


43 posted on 06/01/2011 12:14:09 PM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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