TUCSON, July 11 (UPI) -- Research shows the circumstances of John McCain's birth don't pass constitutional muster for him to be U.S. president, a University of Arizona professor says.
A 1937 law granting citizenship to children of U.S. parents in the Panama Canal Zone came too late to apply to McCain, the U.S. senator from Arizona and likely Republican presidential nominee, The New York Times reported. The Constitution requires the president be a "natural-born citizen," but the law made McCain a citizen just before his first birthday.