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To: David

I’m not so sure about McCain’s eligibility. I’ve seen it argued from early legal sources (can’t remember which ones) that the children of a nation’s ambassadors are natural born even if they are born on foreign soil while their parent is serving as ambassador in that foreign land.

I don’t know how the law classifies military folks, but I would consider them ambassadors of the US when serving abroad.

That issue is for the courts to decide. It frustrates me that the court can do all this penumbra mumbo-jumbo regarding stuff that’s not even in the Constitution, but a question that is directly from the Constitution won’t be addressed.


50 posted on 01/27/2010 7:07:42 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion; LucyT
I’m not so sure about McCain’s eligibility. I’ve seen it argued from early legal sources (can’t remember which ones) that the children of a nation’s ambassadors are natural born even if they are born on foreign soil while their parent is serving as ambassador in that foreign land.

You can argue about anything. But a person born in another country under a foreign sovereign is not a natural born citizen for US Constitutional Law purposes no matter who his parents are or why he was there.

51 posted on 01/28/2010 9:04:02 AM PST by David (...)
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