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To: Michael Michael

Well, was McCain a citizen at birth, or wasn’t he...? You’ve repeatedly stated that there were only two ways to become a citizen : by birth or by naturalization.


93 posted on 02/23/2009 1:46:22 PM PST by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Cyropaedia
Well, was McCain a citizen at birth, or wasn’t he...?

He became a US citizen by way of legislation passed after his birth. But it only made him a citizen by way if collective naturalization. To be a natural born citizen, you have to be born in the United States or its territories. And the Canal Zone was neither at the time of McCain's birth. Which is why 8 USC 1403 was passed, in 1937. To collectively naturalize those born in the Canal Zone to US citizens.


97 posted on 02/23/2009 1:58:47 PM PST by Michael Michael
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