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To: WOSG
Your linked Eugene Volokh's comment is
I'm not an expert on this, but I'm pretty sure that Sen. McCain is a "natural-born citizen" and thus eligible to be President: He was a citizen from birth, having been born to citizen parents (his father was stationed in the Canal Zone). My sense is that "natural-born citizen" is most plausibly interpreted as being a citizen from birth.
Your "100% certain" is Mr. Volokh's "pretty certain" and "most plausibly interpreted".
2,468 posted on 07/08/2008 4:15:35 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw

Read the other article cited, there are several. It nails definitively and conclusively both the common-law and statutory understanding of natural born citizen. McCain is in.


2,469 posted on 07/08/2008 4:19:08 PM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - NObama, stop the Hype and Chains candidate)
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