[Svartalfiar]

And apparently, a military base is not considered US Territory for this purpose. (I didn't find out if being born in an embassy counted otherwise...)

I argued with Lurkinanloomin (haven't seen that poster for a while) that if I were born outside the country on a military base as the offspring of a military family that I WOULD be eligible, but he convinced me I was wrong.

On my phone so too hard to lookup and source stuff. But a) you have a link to that argument? and b) I thought this was argued (in court maybe?) over McCain's eligibility (military base in Panama), and was pretty widely determined / accepted that he was eligible.

Which, I basically agree. Citizenship should be entirely inherited (/naturalized), not just given cause you claim you were on US soil for the birth. Hell, I'd even argue it's maternally passed, since that's the only sure bloodline without paternal testing. Natural born means both parents and e full citizens. Period.

[rlmorel]

I admit, that was my contention as well (what you outlined) because that made sense to me. I might go back and see if I can find it, but I will be honest-trying to find ANYTHING retrospectively on FR has been like finding a needle in a haystack.

I don’t understand why the search function ihere on FR has historically been so opaque to me that I never even bother using it.

That said, I never recall any debate about McCain’s eligibility (except here) and my discussion with Lurkinanloomin was years after the fact, but I chalk it up to the fact I didn’t even think it was an issue with McCain.