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To: ckilmer
Not entirely. It would appear that McCain has real problems regarding a claim to 'natural born citizen' status. The Canal Zone was neither 'in the United States' nor 'outside the jurisdiction of the United States' and that statute law at the time had no provision for that unusual circumstance.
51 posted on 05/08/2009 10:51:57 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

I think McCain was the exception that disproves the rule, in terms of natural birth. The circumstances of his birth could not have been expected by the founders (lived infant years in panama as part of a military occupation force of territory extracted from that country after we separated it from colombia), then elsewhere) in the natural birth clause.

I DO believe it was meant to exclude people with claim to US citizenship who had been born and raised abroad (read - england, france, etc) from returning and having any ability to run for president. Needless to say, the Chester Arthur issue says a lot on what Obama’s claim to natural born citizenship is, no matter where he was born, unless another father is on his bc.


63 posted on 05/14/2009 10:20:47 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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