Message #62879

[Kris Conover]

According to his biography, John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 which was leased to the United States but WAS NOT a U.S. Territory at the time.    According to the U.S. Constitution;

http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5: 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.
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