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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (34406)7/12/2008 1:01:49 PM
From: puborectalis  Read Replies (2) of 224750
 
McCain not 'natural' citizen?
In the most detailed examination yet of McCain's eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither McCain's birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were U.S. citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a "natural-born citizen," Adam Liptak reported.

The analysis, by Gabriel Chin, focused on a 1937 law conferring citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904. It made McCain a citizen just before his first birthday but came too late, Chin argued, to make him a natural-born citizen.

"It's preposterous that a technicality like this can make a difference in an advanced democracy," Chin said. "But this is the constitutional text that we have."
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