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To: ManyMoose who wrote (28969)	7/14/2008 1:35:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 71588

The United States had PHYSICAL CONTROL of the Zone. (Similar perhaps to the physical control we had/have in, say, Iraq. Or in 'GITMO' - held under 'permanent lease' but never made legally part of the American nation and where, to this day, the President contends that because of this distinction American rules of jurisprudence do not apply because it is not 'American soil'.) Iraq and GITMO are not incorporated parts of America though, and neither was the Zone. The United States NEVER MADE the Zone a State. Never made it a Territory, and never annexed it into America proper. This legal distinction is what lies at the heard of the question of "Is someone born there 'naturally born' by the meaning of the US Constitution's section on requirements to be a President?" One year after McCain's birth Congress changed the law to make sure that someone born under such circumstances would be considered to be 'naturally born'. But, since the law was changed AFTER his birth, it cannot legally be applied to him, and the earlier law applies.

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