Blog Writer The Washington Times - April 2, 2008, 06:23PM
Sen. John McCain Chairman Patrick J. Leahy SEE RELATED:

  • McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries

    \ \ \ “Do you have any doubt in your mind? I mean, I have none in mine,” Leahy said in questioning Chertoff.\ \ \ Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution reads, in part: “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.”\ \ \ The question of what it means to be a “natural born citizen” has never been decided. McCain’s parents were stationed at a military base in the Canal Zone in 1936, when he was born.\ \ \ — Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times