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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (29040)7/16/2008 5:16:42 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
and the one that I referred to which SPECIFICALLY granted that status to children of American citizens born in the Canal Zone --- but which was enacted some *one year* AFTER McCain's birth. <g>

But since the issue is his parents citizenship it doesn't really matter.

So there is no need or point to repeating "one year after" again and again.

If either A, or B is needed to achieve C, and you can prove that B didn't happen, that doesn't imply that C wasn't achieved.

And in this case there still is some doubt about "B." Because "one year after" doesn't necessarily imply, anything about him not being a natural born US citizen, unless the law explicitly did not apply to people before the time of its passage.

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You never did give me your definition of "natural born" as it applies to "natural born US citizen". You seem so certain that McCain doesn't qualify but you never made any argument directly on that narrow issue. The only definition that would seem to support your case would be that "natural born", in this context, means "born in the US" and nothing else, but I can't see anything in the constitution, in federal statues, in USSC decisions, in logic, or in English grammar, that backs up that idea.
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