[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]John McCain was born August 29, 1936 [B]in the Panama Canal Zone[/B], to two U.S. citizens. It’s a common misunderstanding that the zone was a U.S. territory - in fact, the U.S. had lease rights, but not [B]territorial rights[/B]. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The US Constitution states, “No person except a [B]natural born citizen[/B], or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall nothave attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.” [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]“Natural Born Citizen” - “is where ONLY the natural act of one being born in a place determines the status of ones citizenship with no additional stipulations necessary to influence that status”[/B] [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Perhaps i'm reading things wrong here, but this does raise an interesting point.[/FONT]