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If you could prove it without a doubt, sure. The problem would be how to do so, of course. Sauriel likely could math it out, but it might take some time.
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Living in the territory of the USA at the adoption of the Constitution (or any other time) did not, as best I can tell, confer citizenship. Rather, people who were already citizens of one of the states continued to be citizens.
(Being a citizen at the adoption of the constitution does have the special feature of being an alternative to the 'natural born Citizen' thing for presidential eligibility. But that's a different story.)
I found an apparent text of the Wyoming Organic Act which doesn't seem to lay out a citizenship process or automatic enrollment, though it does specifically include suffrage for "persons who shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States" within the territory.
So it seems unlikely that people who were in the territory but completely out of contact with the government (or, really, anybody) would gain citizenship thereby. It's possible that another law somewhere that neglected to have an expiry would mean that the dinosaurs can apply for citizenship under some archaic 19th-century expedited process.
POTUS candidatss can also be born to US Citizens, as McCain showed. He was born in Panama to US Citizens. His father was a Navy officer stationed there.
That said, I'm leaning towards not US citizens, most all of them were born before the USA was even founded, and were not citizens of the founding colonies.
Unlike some stories of Highlander style immortals who, having moved to the colonies and joined before the revolutionary War, would actually be eligible.
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That's true... I should have said 'those born US citizens' as opposed to those who are naturalized.
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I believe that he qualified because he was born on a base at the time, or the embassy, which, by definition, is considered to be a little tiny piece of property that is considered U.S. soil. (I am more than will to admit if I'm wrong about that, however.)
He was born, AFAIK, in the Canal Zone which, IIRC, was considered US territory at the time. It has been ceded back to Panama since then.
I don't think it's actually all that nailed down. It's the kind of legalism whose actual meaning is more or less precedent, and only rare Supreme Court opinions contribute to the direct precedent.
