Can John McCain BE President? The law that says he's a citizen was written in 1940, but he was born in 1936?

Question

Can John McCain BE President?

The law that says he's a citizen was written in 1940, but he was born in 1936.

the only statute in effect in 1936 did not cover the Canal Zone. Recognizing the gap, in 1937, Congress passed a citizenship law applicable only to the Canal Zone, granting Senator McCain citizenship, but eleven months too late for him to be a citizen at birth.

Senator McCain was born in 1936 in the Canal Zone to U.S. citizen parents. The Canal Zone was territory controlled by the United States, but it was not incorporated into the Union. As requested by Senator McCain's campaign, distinguished constitutional lawyers Laurence Tribe and Theodore Olson examined the law and issued a detailed opinion offering two reasons that Senator McCain was a natural born citizen. Neither is sound under current law.

So HOW can John McCain even be running for President?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1157621

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html

Answer 1

good luck with that.

Answer 2

OK. Obama wins. Good for you. Now you can collect.

Answer 3

Where is Obama's birth certificate?

How can he be running without it?

The law regarding McCain was retroactive.

An additional law makes McCain a citizen.

But McCain is a natural-born citizen, even though he was not born within this country's borders, since his parents were citizens at the time of his birth. As a congressional act stated in 1790:

Congress: "And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens."

Answer 4

The law is retro-active.