Question for you, how does this apply to John McCain? As I understand it, he was born in a US territory, on a US Armed Forces base, in a US Armed Forces hospital.
No. As I understand it he was born in another hospital in Panama City -- not the military hospital. That was the whole problem.
He was not. McCain was born in a Panamanian hospital: civilian, not military.
While I'm not aware of the Supreme Court ruling on this specific issue, at least one of the commonly cited sources for terms in the Constitution (Vattel's Law of Nations, and Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England) says that one exception to the natural-borne citizen requirement is a child born abroad to citizen parents in the service of the country.
Since McCain's father was a Navy officer stationed in Panama at the time, he would meet that exemption.
McCain was born in Colon Panama, a city in Panama. It wasn’t the military base. He wasn’t born in U.S. Territory. He got a free pass from Congress, which Obama co-authored I believe (going from memory here). but that doesn’t make it LAW. SCOTUS wrote that in 1875, and it is why McCain didn’t bust Obama on this, he had the same problem.
This entire issue is bunk.
“...he was born in a US territory, on a US Armed Forces base, in a US Armed Forces hospital.”
No.
Panama was NEVER a U.S. territory. Panama never surrendered sovereignty of its nation or the land adjacent to the canal. The United States leased the canal and land, managing it for our own gain as we had built it.
Senator John Sidney McCain was born in Panama. The children of U.S. military personnel born overseas in U.S. military hospitals still have to be registered as derived citizens per their parent’s nationality; the miliatry hospitals are located on foreign soil.
See the following site for clarification.
Note: you will find no “natural born citizenship” on that government site. It is not a form of citizenship but an eligibility requirement to be Presdient of the United States.