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javasaurus ([personal profile] javasaurus) wrote2006-05-21 12:14 pm

citizenship and presidency

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?

[identity profile] culfinriel.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I can't believe I don't remember any of this from school, but was any of the discussion behind the citizen thing being put into the constitution related to not being ruled by the King of England? As in, a foreign government that had its own interests and would think of them as more important than the interests of the US?