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To: TimF who wrote (28947)	7/11/2008 7:24:05 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "he was born a US citizen because he was born to American parents." ABSOLUTELY CORRECT (If that had happened in one of the American States)! But, the apparent problem stems from the fact that the US Constitution actually does NOT SAY that all "US citizens" are eligible to be President... but that only "natural born US citizens" are. Therein lies the main rub. As the one law which sought to clear up this loophole was passed AFTER McCain was born (so the Constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws means that the law could not apply to him... as he was born afterward). And, the fact that the United States, in all of it's majesty, actually deported people who were born in the Canal Zone during these periods, laid down a series of legal precedents that they were not 'citizens' simply because they had been born in the unincorporated Canal Territory....