[Amazingly many FReepers think those Chinese babies are natural born citizens eligible to be President.]
You might believe you have the right to carry a pistol wherever you wish to, without a permit, thanks to the 2nd Amendment. The reality, however, thanks to the Supreme Court’s interpretation, is that if you do so in many states, and are stopped by the police, you will face a prison term.
There are people who believe the income tax is unconstitutional and the state has no power to compel them to pay. The ones who acted on this belief by not paying their income taxes are either in Federal prison or exile.
The Supreme Court in Minor vs Happersett 1874
The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.