Re: For example, John McCain was born in Panama. Under Panama’s Constitution, he is still considered a Panamanian citizen by the Republic of Panama whether or not he has lived there since birth. The Panamanian government’s views on this issue are irrelevant as to his eligibility to run for POTUS in 2008 (that he was a terrible RINO choice is a political matter but not a legal disqualification).
And that’s exactly why John McCain is a “naturalized” American citizen, and he too was not eligible of the Office of POTUS.
Barry Goldwater wasn’t eligible and neither are Obama, McCain, Jindal, Rubio, and Cruz.
But it doesn’t matter anymore. No on cares — especially the attorneys and the courts.
What does that tell you about the state of the Constitution and the law?
In 1898 the federal government asked the Supreme Court to rule on: “Are Chinese children born in this country to share with the descendants of the patriots of the American Revolution the exalted qualification of being eligible to the Presidency of the nation, conferred by the Constitution in recognition of the importance and dignity of citizenship by birth?”—Government’s Brief, U.S. v Wong Kim Ark
The Supreme Court ruled 6-2: [An alien parent’s] allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate, and, although but local and temporary, continuing only so long as he remains within our territory, is yet, in the words of Lord Coke in Calvin’s Case, ’strong enough to make a natural subject, for, if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject’
“Subject’ and ‘citizen’ are, in a degree, convertible terms as applied to natives; and though the term ‘citizen’ seems to be appropriate to republican freemen, yet we are, equally with the inhabitants of all other countries, ’subjects,’ for we are equally bound by allegiance and subjection to the government and law of the land.’
every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born.
The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established.”—United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
Since that Supreme Court ruling and for the last 118 years, anyone who qualifies as a Citizen of the United States at Birth also qualifies as a Natural Born Citizen.