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While I think it is horrible that someone could be disqualified from being President because a parent was serving the US overseas at the time, that is exactly what the law seems to be saying here. From the same article:
(1) Jus soli (the law of the soil), a rule of common law under which the place of a person?s birth determines citizenship. In addition to common law, this principle is embodied in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the various U.S. citizenship and nationality statutes.
(2) Jus sanguinis (the law of the bloodline ), a concept of Roman or civil law under which a person?s citizenship is determined by the citizenship of one or both parents. This rule, frequently called ?citizenship by descent? or ?derivative citizenship?, is not embodied in the U.S. Constitution, but such citizenship is granted through statute. As laws have changed, the requirements for conferring and retaining derivative citizenship have also changed.
While McCain is clearly a US citizen by statute, by not being born here, he apparently is not by birth - which is what the US Constitution requires to be President. For the children of illegal immigrants to be ciitizens just by being born here, while the children of veterans serving overseas might be disqualified from being President - that certainly justifies amending the Constitution in my view.
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