When McCain was born in Panama, the Canal Zone was US Territory, I think it was considered a Commonwealth.
-- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (919) 874-6229 (home) (703) 220-2835 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 3:33 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: McCain may not be eligible for the presidency That's to be decided, but from what I understand apparently not. That's one of the reasons why the US has the status of forces agreements with most countries where there's a US base, so that US laws apply to american personnel on US bases. The state department seems to think that US forces bases are not american territory, from the article: >According to a State Department manual, U.S. military installations abroad >cannot be considered "part of the United States" and "A child born on the >premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United >States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth." So it would be very interesting to see how this plays out. >Uhmmm... I'm sorry, the last time I looked, a US Military Base overseas, >like a US Embassy is United States Territory, subject to the same laws and >Citizenship as the Continental US. Especially if it was inside the Panama >canal zone.... > >This sounds like a non issue.... > >-- >Scott Stewart ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259656 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
