“To declare the children of career military ineligible for US citizenship is madness.” The Canal Zone is American soil.
Those attacking the principle of natural born citizenship don’t care how their goal is accomplished so long as they get it. They have gotten a foreigner on one side, now all they have to do is do the same thing for republicans, and they would have gotten exactly what they want. An America, governed not by Americans, but by foreigners. Foreigners, who with the complicity of allies here who would promptly sign over American citizenship to others.
This is WHY the fathers of the United States explicitly included this principle. They had just freed the United States from governance overseas. They did not want to see America capitulated under said governance once more.
The Canal Zone being under US control at that time is irrelevant to the citizenship situation of children born to the military while their parents are on overseas assignment. Germany probably has US citizens being born every single day to US military parents.
Are we suggesting that those children are not US citizens? We want to PENALIZE those who are defending the nation from forward bases in foreign countries by stripping their children of citizenship??? That’s crazy, but it’s worse...it’s unpatriotic and it’s cruel.