citizenship and presidency

[javasaurus]

Most Americans know that you have to be a natural-born citizen to become president. (Of course, the definition of "natural-born" is somewhat open to interpretation.) My question is this: are you eligible to become president if you are born outside the US (including its territories), but the place of your birth becomes a new state? And another: Do you retain eligibility if you were born on U.S. soil, but the location later became, somehow, non-US?

Wacky related question: If you are born on a plane flying over the US, does that count?

Finally, do any of you have thoughts about the idea that citizens who are not natural-born citizens cannot become president?

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

wacky question? believe it or not, it depends on 1) the airline, and 2) where it's going. if the airline is heading away from the u.s., then it probably counts your birth place as the place of landing because that will be the first place a birth certificate can be written.

to finish my thought.

if the airline belonged to a u.s. company, however, they could assert that their "home" is in the u.s. so you technically were born there. e.g., Delta's "home" is Atlanta, so anything that happens in the air is in the multiple jurisdiction of the airport it launched from (and the state it resides in - Dulles is technically Washington, DC, though Virginia law also applies there; Chicago's O'Hare is in the same situation), and the airport it lands in, AND the home city of the airline.