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To: eclecticEel

McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, a US Territory at the time.


58 posted on 02/21/2016 10:22:00 AM PST by PJBankard (It is the spirit of the men who leads that gains the victory. - Gen. George Patton)
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To: PJBankard

Are you saying that persons born to Panamian-citizens in the Canal Zone were U.S. citizens by place of birth?

Only persons born to U.S. citizen parents there were U.S. citizens at birth. For Constitutional purposes, it was “overseas.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone#Citizenship

Now, think of Guantanamo. Do you see why detainees are sent there? Being leased and not sovereign U.S. territory, it’s in a kind of a Constitutional no man’s land.


70 posted on 02/21/2016 1:40:33 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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