McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out - New York Times

Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out - New York Times