Leo Donofrio's case is being looked at by the supreme court on Dec.5 - hopefully we'll find out from them how they interpret it, seeing as their opinion is likely the only one that really matters.
here's something to read regarding mccain's eligibility....
McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out
.....LOWELL P. WEICKER JR., of Connecticut, born in Paris, was told he was eligible for the Oval Office.
GEORGE ROMNEY, born in Mexico, ran for the presidency in 1968.
BARRY GOLDWATER was born in the Arizona territory in 1909, before it became a state.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR was born in Vermont, but rumors suggested it was Canada.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html?_r=1
In 1790 Congress wrote a statute law regarding the Naturalization of Citizens not born here and also included in the language that Children BORN from American citizens overseas are considered Natural Born citizens....that's just a couple of years after the constitutional convention....
so to me, this is the intent of our founders clarified in this 1790 law, therefore mccain is a natural born citizen....
AND, if mccain is a natural born citizen because of this law writen in 1790 then obama would be as well....
It has already been ruled over the years that anyone born in a foreign country on a USA base, station, or facility is NOT the same as being on American soil when born...
this is because foreign workers may end up delievering their babies on one of Our Bases and this DOES NOT MEAN that these babies automatically have american citizenship as it would be for any baby born on usa soil would be a natural born citizen.
And if you think about it from another angle, any child born from ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS on USA soil would be considered a natural born citizen and be ELIGIBLE to be President of the United States, while if interpreted in the way that you do, McCain and Obama, born from a usa citizen WOULD NOT BE....
And quite frankly, that "just ain't right" in my book, so to me, the Naturalization statute that was added in to law in 1790, and signed in to law by George Washington,. out first president, which included a part in it regarding the children from American citizens born overseas as being natural born citizens, is good enough, and only makes sense.
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