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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
WTF there's McCain birthers too?!?
According to the United States naturalization and immigration laws McCain is a natural born citizen. I'm no SCOTUS but natural born citizen = birthright citizenship, so if you're BORN a U.S. citizen (shouldn't matter where) you should be eligible to become president. Unless you're making a case that people not born in the 50 states aren't considered natural born, which would make the residents of PR, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and N Mariana Islands illegitimate citizens.
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Given the legal precedent, it actually is more complicated than that. McCain was born the Panama Canal Zone (although some say he was born at a hospital outside the Canal Zone). There is honest difference of legal opinion about whether one is a "natural-born citizen" within the meaning of the Constitution under those circumstances, even when born of American parents.
I know we had a discussion about this back in 2008, but I can't find it now.
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