You can be born out of the US, if your parents are citizens. I assume his parents were US Citizens, that would make him one, regardless of where he was born.
If he was born in the Canal Zone, I believe that was soveriegn US soil until recently...
no it would not disqualify him, he's the son of a Navy admiral born in the Panama Canal Zone, there's a rule that foreignborn kids of military personnel are counted as US born.
Nope, if I recall correctly he was born on U.S. soil in Panama making him a natural born citizen both by parentage and location.
I was born in Spain but am an American citizen. My father, an Air Force Vet, was stationed in Seville Spain when I was born. I was born on a military base there.
My brother was born in Germany. He too is a citizen.
I know McCain is from a military family also. Might he have been born on a US base?
Was his father in the Military or Political Service of the United States of America at the time John was born? I am sure his parents were (are in the case of his mother) US citizens.
Egads! Hope he runs on the demoncRAT ticket.
It's not that you have to be born in the US, it's that you have to be born a U.S. Citizen. Children born to US parents overseas (even not on military bases) are "natural born" US citizens.
Why should it disqualify him? Should parents serving overseas in the military forfeit the possibility of their children becoming president?
No [see prior posts]. What disqualifies McCain is that he is a RINO and a moron.
Children of U.S. citizens born overseas get a birth certificate from the Department of State. They are Americans. I have been through this process.
If you are born in a foreign country and your parents are US citizens, you have dual citizenship until you reach the age of majority. At that time you need to decide which country you desire to be a citizen of. I'm not sure if the rule applies if you are born on a US military base. If McCain was born in the Canal Zone, I believe that the rule would not apply, as it was American territory until recently.
At least this how I understood the rules worked back in my teens. I had several friends who were born overseas to US servicemen. The rules may have changed since then.
McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, and both his parents were U.S. citizens, so he is a U.S. citizen from birth, and thus a natural-born citizen for purposes of the Constitution.
It is much easier to disqualify Sen Loon because he was not "born" at all, as is required, but rather "hatched."
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I dunno, I heard that maybe he was born in Ireland. Owl, doesn't this disqualify him for other privilidges as well?
"Natural born U.S. citizen" does not mean only those born in the United States. One could be born on the Space Shuttle of U.S. citizen parents and still be qualified to serve as president.
It can get complicated, but if the parents are citizens, their children are automatically citizens, no matter where they are born.