Wrong as usual. The holding or judgment in the case, the majority opinion, did not call Ark a Natural born citizen.
Wrong as usual. The holding or judgment in the case, the majority opinion, did not call Ark a Natural born citizen.Read the ruling (or at least my summary) or do not respond. The Court's ruling in the case states:
1) The Constitution does not define "natural born citizen".
2) Therefore, English common law should hold for the definition of this term (since the United States never had a common law).
3) [According to English Common Law,] "Children, born in England, of such aliens were therefore natural-born subjects."
4) Therefore, Wong Kim Ark was a citizen.
To argue that the SCOTUS was not declaring Wong Kim Ark to be a natural born citizen, is being deliberately dense.