The fact that John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone has brought forth the question if he is a "Natural Born Citizen" in accordance with Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the United States Constitution, which states: "No person except a natural born citizen, 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 not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States." If not a "Natural Born Citizen", then he would be ineligible to hold the office of the President of the United States or the Vice presidency. There is allot of talk on what John McCain should do to end this speculation, like take the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. I actually have a much easier solution. Read the Naturalization Act of 1790. This was the first Act, by Congress, that addressed naturalization.It also did another thing in addressing the children of citizen born outside the United States.
This Act contains: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof on application to any common law Court of record in any one of the States wherein he shall have resided for the term of one year at least, and making proof to the satisfaction of such Court that he is a person of good character, and taking the oath or affirmation prescribed by law to support the Constitution of the United States, which Oath or Affirmation such Court shall administer, and the Clerk of such Court shall record such Application, and the proceedings thereon; and thereupon such person shall be considered as a Citizen of the United States. And the children of such person so naturalized, dwelling within the United States, being under the age of twenty one years at the time of such naturalization, shall also be considered as citizens of the United States. :And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens: Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States: Provided also, that no person heretofore proscribed by any States, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid, except by an Act of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed."
A question of his eligibility? I hardly think so.
~Loki~
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