john mccain and his mythical birth certificate

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ohn McCain and his Mythical Birth Certificate

y nolu chaneptember 20, 2009

s Michael Dobbs reported in his Washington Post Fact-Check, "the McCain campaign has declined to publielease the senator's birth certificate." No birth certificate, certificate of live birth, or even a JPEG image of irth document has ever been made public by John McCain.

With the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the COLB produced by Obama, the pass previously given, antill being given in some quarters to McCain, deserves a review.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103224 pf.html

Michael Dobbs wrote in the Washington Post, Friday, May 2, 2008,

"In his autobiography, "Faith of My Fathers," McCain writes that he was born "in the Canal Zone"at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Coco Solo, which was under the command of his grandfather, JohnS. McCain Sr."

"A senior official of the McCain campaign showed a reporter a copy of the senator's birth certificateissued by Canal Zone health authorities, recording his birth in the Coco Solo "family hospital."

n this version of events, McCain was allegedly born in the Canal Zone, on the U.S. Naval Air Station at Cocolo, and is quite specific in referring to the command of McCain's grandfather, which was the Air Station.

Dobbs refers to an unidentified McCain campaign official permitting "a reporter" a glimpse of what the staffurported was a birth certificate issued by "Canal Zone health authorities," not U.S. military authorities. "Aeporter" is a curious anonymous description by Michael Dobbs of a reporter whom Michael Dobbs lateraimed was Michael Dobbs.

he "reporter" with the sneak peek at the document looked right at it and then repeated McCain'sutobiography assertion, that he was born at the Naval Air Station, without saying a mumbling word about

he Submarine Base. Since it became apparent that the Naval Air Station had no hospital, and apparently noctor assigned, the "hospital" description and location has morphed.

o relevant record issued by Canal Zone health authorities has ever been released or discovered. The officianal Zone records are maintained in College Park, Maryland. McCain's birth is not recorded therein.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/05/john_mccains_birthplace.html

FACT-CHECKERMichael Dobbs

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The Facts

As I reported earlier, the McCain campaign has declined to publicly release the senator's birthcertificate. But a senior campaign official showed me a copy of his birth certificate issued by the"family hospital" in the Coco Solo submarine base. (McCain's grandfather commanded the CocoSolo Naval Air Station in 1936; his father was the executive officer of a submarine based in CocoSolo.)

The birth certificate was signed by Captain W. L. Irvine. I have now checked that name against theNaval Register for 1936, and I find that William Lorne Irvine was director of the medical facility at
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the submarine base hospital in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, during that time period. You cansee the entry hereI think thiseffectively disposes of any remaining doubts that McCain was borninside the Canal Zone.

The senator's 96-year-old mother, Roberta McCain, recalled the occasion in a Mother's Day videoavailable here. She recalled "the 27 bottles of Scotch" stacked on a table of the nearby Officers'Club, gifts to her husband in celebration of the arrival of "the sweetest, nicest child I have everknown."

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s noted by Michael Dobbs, the McCain campaign REFUSED to release a copy of any birth certificate. Annonymous campaign official is reported to have shown a copy of something alleged to be a birth certificato "a reporter." Dobbs subsequently asserted he was the reporter.

o copy of a McCain birth certificate has ever been produced by McCain. A third generation senior navalfficer, McCain wrote that he was born on the Naval Air Station, of which his grandfather was thenommanding officer, not the Submarine Base. The Naval Hospital was not built at Coco Solo until the 1940'

here is not, and never has been, any such thing as a Navy "family hospital." Officially, in all military medicacilities, active duty military have priority of care.

o official record, or image thereof, has ever been produced to show where and when John McCain was bo

he nearest hospital was run by the Panama Canal Commission. It was located approximately 100 yardsutside the CZ limits. Here we speak of a complete hospital with an operating theater.

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HE DOCUMENT RELIED UPON BY MICHAEL DOBBS/FACT CHECK

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William Irvine is listed at #71.
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he document linked by Michael Dobbs fails to support his contention - it does NOT show that William Lornrvine was the director of a medical facility, or that the alleged "family hospital" existed. William Irvine heldhe old medical staff rank of Medical Director, equivalent to Captain. The old staff rank designators have bebandoned.

he Act of Mar. 3, 1871, established five grades in the Medical Corps of which two, medical director andmedical inspector, were higher than the grade of surgeon.

he archaic rank structure of naval staff officers was not changed until Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (34.S.C. 10a). William Irvine was NOT a Navy Captain as claimed by Michael Dobbs. There was no such thingU.S. Navy Medical Corps Captain in 1936. Medical Director Irvine was just that - his RANK was Medical

Director. His rank designator no more documents Medical Director Irvine was a director of a non-existent Namily hospital than does the title of Flight Surgeon Connie Rhodes indicate she does scalpel surgery in a nxistent operating theater on an aircraft (or elsewhere).

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In subsection (a) the words "from officers on the active list of the Navy in the Medical Corps" aresubstituted for the words "from the list of Surgeons of the Navy" to conform to present statutory
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terminology, and the words "or from officers having the rank of captain in the staff corps of theNavy" are omitted as obsolete in view of the subsequent changes in staff corps grades and theestablishment of grades and ranks higher than captain in the staff corps. R.S. 421 and 426 werederived from the Act of July 5, 1862, ch. 134, 12 Stat. 510, and the Act of Mar. 3, 1871, ch. 117,Sec. 10, 16 Stat. 537. The Act of July 5, 1862, provided that the Chief of the Bureau of Medicineand Surgery should be appointed from the list of surgeons in the Navy. At that time the seniormedical officers were "surgeons" who "ranked with" commanders. Next junior to them were"surgeons" who "ranked with" lieutenants. The rank of lieutenant commander did not exist. TheAct of Mar. 3, 1871, established five grades in the Medical Corps of which two, medicaldirector and medical inspector, were higher than the grade of surgeon.Medical directorswere given the relative rank of captain, medical inspectors the relative rank of commander, andsurgeons the relative rank of lieutenant commander or lieutenant.

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Section 405 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (34 U.S.C. 10a) abolished the grade of surgeonand other staff corps grades and replaced them with grades having the same titles as the gradesand ranks in the line. Officers who were "surgeons" are now "lieutenant commanders andlieutenants in the Medical Corps."

n 1911, Dr. Irvine held the staff designation of "Assistant Surgeon." It does not mean he was assistingnyone with surgery.

egister of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps January 1,911, Washington, Government Printing Office, p. 232

On his discovery of a Navy record actually showing William Irvine held the rankof Medical Director, Mr. Dorst documented his own misunderstanding of what he found by calling that officer "Captain Irvine" instead

is proper title, Medical Director Irvine. Then Dobbs asserted of his discovered document, and his erroneouonclusions, "I think thiseffectively disposes of any remaining doubts that McCain was born inside the Canone."

nfortunately, what Dobbs claims to be the evidence which disposes of any remaining doubts about whereMcCain was born proves only that the Dobbs report is erroneous. And note that Dobbs asserts that it is thiocument, not something that came before, that allegedly disposes of remaining doubts.

would further note that the fictional, non-existent Navy "family hospital," was moved by Dobbs fromMcCain's claimed place of birth on the Naval Air Station to Irvine's location at the Navy Submarine Base.resumably the document that Dobbs claims to have seen one time did not change.

clinic or dispensary cannot routinely deliver babies in an ad hoc delivery room. The Feres Doctrine proteche military from malpractice suits by military members but not by civilian dependents. Were there to be aroblem delivery, it sure would be nice to have an operating theater nearby, with a staff to man it. Navyinics and dispensaries do not sport operating theaters and an O.R. staff.

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he Panama Canal Zone was not part of the United States.

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NOT PART OF UNITED STATES.; Treasurer Tracewell Defines Panama Canal Zone's Status.

Special to The New York Times.

July 29, 1904, Friday

Page 1, 252 words

WASHINGTON, July 28. -- "While the general spirit and purpose of the Constitution is applicable tothe zone, that domain is not a part of the United States within the full meaning of the Constitutionand laws of the country.

This is the substance of an opinon made by Controller of the Treasurer Tracewell today definingthe authority of the Panama Canal Commission regarding disbursements and the realtion of thecanal zone to the United States."

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he United States did not exercise sovereignty over the Panama Canal Zone.

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rticle III of the Treaty provided, "The Republic of Panama grants to the United States all the rights, powernd authority within the zone mentioned and described in Article II of this agreement, and within the limitsll auxiliary lands and waters mentioned and described in said Article II which the United States would possnd exercise, if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to thentire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority

- "which the United States would possess and exercise, if it were the sovereign" -- is conclusive that the Uwas -not- the sovereign of that territory, but only that it was permitted by the actual sovereign to exerciseghts, powers, and authorities belonging to the actual sovereign. The sovereign (RP) delegates authority, it

oes not delegate sovereignty. The U.S. had jurisdiction but not sovereignty.

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http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:3:./temp/~c110Z6fjjX::

SRES 511 ATS

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Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base inthe Panama Canal Zone in 1936: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That John Sidney McCain, III, is a 'natural born Citizen' under Article II, Section 1, of theConstitution of the United States.

Whether territory is a military base or not has no bearing on whether it is U.S. territory for citizenshipurposes. If one is born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, he is born a citizenccording the the 14th Amendment. If born outside the United States, citizenship status is controlled byederal statute. The only question about one being a natural born citizen is if he or she was born a citizen.ersons who became citizens at the moment of birth are natural born citizens.

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Overseas military bases are not sovereign U.S. territory.

NITED STATES STATE DEPARTMENT

www.state.gov/documents/organization/86755.pdf

7 FAM 1100 ACQUISITION AND RETENTION OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALITY

Note that at 7 FAM 1116.1-4(c) is found:

c. Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S.diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning ofthe 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject tothe jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason ofbirth.

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he Historian at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) lists historical facilities maintained by the U.Savy since 1806. There has never been any such entity as a Navy "family hospital." Units which are not

ospitals are clinics or dispensaries or rehab facilities.

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While there is a birth announcement saying that McCain was born in the Submarine Base Hospital, the nonxistent hospital is not given physical or historical existence by a misattribution. There was only one hospitahere in 1936, and it was 100 yards outside the territory of the Canal Zone. Absent fences and gates, aolloquial reference to that hospital as the base hospital is not unlikely. It was run by the American Panamaanal Company.

While there has been such a thing as a Base Hospital during WW1 and WW2, there has never been anyfficial Base Hospital in Panama at any time. The U.S. Navy creates Base Hospitals in wartime.

http://navyhistory.med.navy.mil/Collections/Library/Historical%20Files%20Finding%20Aid.pdf

Base/Fleet Mobile Hospitals (1917 to Present)

Base Hospitals:

Base Hospital 1 Londonderry, Northern Ireland/Brest, France (World War I)Base Hospital 1 New Guinea (World War II)Base Hospital 2 Strathpeffer, Scotland (World War I)Base Hospital 2 Efate, New Hebrites (World War II)Base Hospital 3 Leith, Scotland (World War I)Base Hospital 3 Espiritu Santos, New Hebrites (World War II)

Base Hospital 4 Queenstown, Ireland (World War I)Base Hospital 4 Wellington, New Zealand (World War II)Base Hospital 5 Brest, France (World War I)Base Hospital 6 Espiritu Santos, New Hebrites (World War II)Base Hospital 7 Tulagi, Solomon Islands (World War II)Base Hospital 8 Pearl Harbor, HI (World War II)Base Hospital 9 Oran, Algeria (World War II)Base Hospital 10 Sydney, Australia (World War II)Base Hospital 11 Munda, New Georgia (World War II)Base Hospital 12 Netley, England (World War II)Base Hospital 13 Hilimoi, New Guinea (World War II)Base Hospital 14 Finschaven, New Guinea/Cavite, Philippines (World War II)
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Base Hospital 15 Manus Island, Admiralty Islands (World War II)Base Hospital 16 Woendi, Netherlands East Indies (World War II)Base Hospital 17 Hollandia, New Guinea (World War II)Base Hospital 18 Apra Harbor, Guam, Marianas Islands (World War II)Base Hospital 19 Tinian (World War II)Base Hospital 20 Peleliu, Palau Islands (World War II)Base Hospital 21 Kwajalein Island, Marshall Islands (World War II)

UMED Historical Files Finding Aid

olloquially, people refer to the "base hospital," but then they refer to the "roach coach" as well. Beingssigned to Hotel Barracks did not create a hotel and a room with a view.

While there were and are Naval Hospitals, and there was one in Coco Solo, it was constructed in 1941. Iteems reasonable to conclude that McCain was not born there in 1936.

navy hospital is a separate command with its own commanding officer. It may be what is called a tenantommand situated on a Naval Station or Base, but it is always, without exception, a separate command.

he document Dobbs relies upon shows that Dr. Irvine held the rank of Medical Director and was assigned he Submarine Base. The document proves that Irvine was not the commanding officer of a hospital at theubmarine Base. Were he such, official Navy records would list him as attached to the hospital of which he

was commanding officer. The document does NOT show that Dr. Irvine was either the director of anything,hat any sort of "hospital" existed at the Submarine Base.

he onlyevidence of the existence of any "base hospital" at the Submarine Base at Coco Solo is in an Englewspaper birth announcement in Panama, in the Republic of Panama.
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he U.S. Naval Hospital in the Canal Zone at Coco Solo did not exist in 1936.

ttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=60931

xecutive Order 8981 - Navy Hospital Area, Coco Solo, Canal Zone, December 17, 1941, signed by Presidenranklin D Roosevelt said, "The following-described area of land in the Canal Zone is hereby reserved and spart as, and assigned to the uses and purposes of, a naval reservation, which shall be known as Navyospital Area, Coco Solo, and which shall be under the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy

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Without enough people after WW2 to justify the existence of a Naval Hospital at Coco Solo, the Navy gaveway. There were not enough people to justify the existence of such a hospital beforeWW2, which is why ad not been built and did not exist.

ttp://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_12/science_01.html

The Second World War brought a major expansion of the Canal Zones hospital facilities, most of which neaw the massive influxes of war casualties for which they were built and were later converted for non-medurposes. (One of those, Coco Solo Hospital, was built by the US Navy and later turned over to the Panam

anal Company, and now lives on as the Policlinica Hugo Spadafora."

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mage of a page from the Panama Canal Commission Birth Register:

he Panama Canal Commission Birth Register is maintained at College Park, Maryland.

While the Michael Dobbs article asserts, "A senior official of the McCain campaign showed a reporter a copyhe senator's birth certificate issued by Canal Zone health authorities, recording his birth in the Coco Soloamily hospital,'" it does not appear in the register of births maintained by the Panama Canal Commission ao U.S. Navy "family hospital" exists in Navy records.

his purported facility has morphed from a Hospital on the Naval Air Station, to a Submarine Base HospitaNavy Family Hospital, to a vague medical facility.

here is very strong evidence that in 1936 the base hospital did not exist and that at the Coco Solo base,Existing facilities in 1939 included a small landing-field, three plane hangars, one blimp hangar, barracks,
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fficer's quarters, three seaplane ramps, and a few miscellaneous buildings."

ase housing did not exist. The contract for it was awarded in December 1940.

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Coco Solo

Naval Air Station.-- The Coco Solo air station occupies 185 acres of hard land, on the east sideof Manzanillo Bay. Existing facilities in 1939 included a small landing-field, three planehangars, one blimp hangar, barracks, officer's quarters, three seaplane ramps, and afew miscellaneous buildings.

When the development of the station was begun on August 1, 1940, the approved plancontemplated expansion sufficient to serve seven patrol squadrons of seaplanes.Theoriginal site, though limited, was considered to be the most advantageous that could be found inthe Canal Zone; consequently, maximum expansion was advocated rather than construction of anadditional base in another locality.

The greatest single deficiency existing at the station was the lack of sheltered water for full-load

take-off immediately adjacent to the base. There was a wide gap of open water between theeastern breakwater and Margarita Point, through which heavy ocean swells entered Manzanillo Bay,frequently making seaplane operations hazardous. In addition, the station lacked sufficienthangars, ramps, parking aprons, housing, storage, and repair facilities.

The initial construction effort, therefore, was concentrated on closing the 3,800-foot gap in theMargarita breakwater. Rubble-mound construction, laid on a 15-foot coral mat, was used, the wallitself having a coral-fill core, covered with heavy rock and armored with pre-cast concrete blocks.It was built entirely from a temporary timber trestle, without the use of floating equipment otherthan the hydraulic dredge used for placing the foundation and core.

At the air station proper, three large steel hangars, four seaplane ramps, 700,000 square feet ofconcrete parking area, engine test stands, and a large aircraft assembly and repair shop wereadded to the operating area fronting on Manzanillo Bay. To make expansion possible, it wasnecessary to reclaim 30 acres of beach by dredge. A steel sheet-pile sea-wall, 2,100 feet long, wasdriven to enclose two edges of this newly made land.

Other construction accomplished at the station included a barrack and mess hall for 1,000 men, anew wing to an existing barracks to care for 400 men, a bombproof command center, anoperations building, a large administration building to house the administrative offices of both theair station and the adjoining submarine base, and several large warehouses.

Dredging operations at the air station were also extended to furnish coral fill for the construction ofnew runways at Army's adjacent France Field. When that field was completed, 1,700 feet ofconcrete taxiway, 66 feet wide, was built to connect the two stations. The Navy, henceforth, used

Army facilities for the operation of its landplanes in the Coco Solo area.

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Housing

As a part of the general expansion program undertaken in the Canal Zone, two housingdevelopments, totaling 1,400 units, were built to provide for the families of married enlistedpersonnel and civilian employees of the 15th Naval District. These units, built under a contractawarded in December 1940,were divided, 1,104 being on the Atlantic and 296 on the Pacificend of the Canal.
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The larger development, Coco Solito, was constructed on a 33-acre, filled-in site, one mile south ofthe air station at Coco Solo. Laid out with six east-west streets and three north-south ones, CocoSolito contained 91 twelve-unit, one eight-unit, and one four-unit apartment buildings. Thestructures were of similar type and design, three stories high, of concrete and frame, withgalvanized-iron roofing and the ground floors available for garages and laundries.

The housing area at the Pacific end of the Canal encircled San Juan Hill on three sides, spreadingover approximately 100 acres of rolling ground which required considerable clearing and leveling. Itincluded 66 four-unit apartments, 2 officers' houses, 2 bachelor officers' quarters, and 5 B-1-typebarracks, together with several community buildings, storehouses, a public-works shop,administration, subsistence, and service buildings.

At Lacona, 296 apartments for civilian personnel were completed in December 1941. This groupcomprised 24 twelve-unit and one eight-unit apartment houses.

A new 12-inch water main replaced the former 8-inch one supplying Balboa, and a 750,000-gallonwater reservoir was built on San Juan Hill to serve naval activities.

Hospitals

To care for the large increases in personnel which accompanied the expansion of the navalestablishment, a new 200-bed naval hospital was built on a 40-acre tract of high land,

on the north side of the new Trans-Isthmian Highway, about 3 miles from the CocoSolo air station.This facility consisted of a four-story structure, with additional buildings forquarters, laundry, garage, and sewage plant, all of reinforced concrete. It was commissioned inSeptember 1942,and later enlarged by the addition of two temporary wards of frameconstruction, to provide 500 beds.

A second hospital was built on a 50-acre tract adjoining the operating base on the Pacific side.Construction of this 400-bed facility was begun in the late fall of 1941. It was commissioned

August 15, 1942, and put to immediate use, though only partially completed.

All the buildings were of temporary frame construction, one-story high, and well ventilated. Theyincluded six standard H-type wards, connected by covered passageways, quarters, andadministration building, and laboratories, messhalls, and garages. Location and general layout werechosen so as to be readily adaptable if permanent structures were eventually erected on the site.

ote that Naval Hospitals are commands. They are commissioned. As a command, it has a commandingfficer.

ny official document created by the U.S. Navy manages to identify the command it came from. A dispensar clinic does not call itself a hospital in an official document.

n the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, a Captain is a junior officer. In the different rank structure of theavy, a Captain is equivalent to a full bird Colonel in the other services, and the next advancement is to fla

ank. One of those does not get assigned to run a little clinic. A Navy Captain doctor might be theommanding Officer of a Naval Hospital, and a line Captain might be the Commanding Officer of an Aircraf

arrier.

ust as a Flight Surgeon is assigned to ensure the special physical qualifications and see to the special needf military aviators, and specially trained doctor is assigned to ensure the special physical qualifications andee to the special needs of submariners. Dr. Irvine was assigned to the Submarine Base, not to a non-exis

OB delivery room at a non-existent Navy family hospital.

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ere are two lengthy and opposing scholarly opinions on the citizenship of John McCain. Both are based onMcCain having been born inside the Canal Zone. If it were shown that McCain was born 100 yards outside anal Zone in the Colon hospital, then McCain would clearly be a natural born citizen, but his claim to havi


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een born on the U.S. Naval Air Station, Coco Solo would be erroneous.

ttp://www.michiganlawreview.org/firstimpressions/vol107/chin.pdf

abriel J. Chin, Commentary, Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a HundreYards Short of Citizenship,107 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 1 (2008). (21 pp.)

rofessor Gabriel Chin's article in Michigan Law Review discussing McCain birth in CZ in 1936. Professor Chasts doubt on natural born citizen status if born in CZ rather than Republic of Panama.

In 1936, the Canal Zone fell into a gap in the law, covered neither by the citizenship clause norRevised Statutes section 1993 (passed as the Act of May 24, 1934), the only statute applicable tobirths to U.S. citizens outside the United States. As then-Representative John Sparkman explainedin 1937: the Canal Zone is not such foreign territory as to come under the law of 1855 [RevisedStatutes section 1993] and, on the other hand, it is not part of the United States which would bringit within the fourteenth amendment. The problem was well known; Richard W. Flournoys 1934

American Bar Association Journal article, Proposed Codification of Our Chaotic Nationality Laws,explained we have no statutory provisions defining the nationality status of persons born in theCanal Zone . . . .

Because the Canal Zone was a no mans land, in the words of Representative Sparkman, in 1937Congress passed a statute, the Act of Aug. 4, 1937 (now codified at 8 U.S.C. 1403(a)) granting

citizenship to [a]ny person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904 who had atleast one U.S. citizen parent. This Act made Senator McCain a U.S. citizen before his first birthday.But again, to be a natural born citizen, one must be a citizen at the moment of birth. SinceSenator McCain became a citizen in his eleventh month of life, he does not satisfy this criterion, isnot a natural born citizen, and thus is not eligible to the Office of President.

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achs, Stephen E., John McCain's Citizenship: A Tentative Defense(August 19, 2008). (52 pp.)

Sen. John McCain was born a U.S. citizen and is eligible to be president. The most seriouschallenge to his status, recently posed by Prof. Gabriel Chin, contends that the statute grantingcitizenship to Americans born abroad did not include the Panama Canal Zone, where McCain wasborn in 1936. When Congress amended the law in 1937, he concludes, it was too late for McCainto be natural born.

Even assuming, however, that McCains citizenship depended on this statute -- and ignoring hisclaim to citizenship at common law -- Chins argument may be based on a misreading. When thestatutory language was originally adopted in 1795, it was apparently read to address all childrenborn outside of the United States proper, which would include those born in the Canal Zone.Patterns of historical usage, early interpretations of the citizenship statutes, contemporaneousexpressions of the statutes purpose, and the actual application of the statutes to cases analogousto McCains all confirm this understanding. More recently, the acquisition of Americas outlyingpossessions lent plausibility to new interpretations of the law. But because the key language wasnever altered between 1795 and 1936, its original meaning was preserved intact, making John

McCain a U.S. citizen at birth.

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