The WKA didn't go into great detail about the meaning of NBC at all. NBC is only mentioned about 5 or 6 times and the last time it is mentioned is when the court affirmed the Minor definition of NBC: all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens. Then, thanks to YOU, we learned that the Supreme Court affirmed in 1913 in Luria v. United States that Minor and NOT WKA was the legal precedent for Art. II eligibiliity.
“The WKA didn’t go into great detail about the meaning of NBC at all. NBC is only mentioned about 5 or 6 times and the last time it is mentioned is when the court affirmed the Minor definition of NBC: all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens.”
Which is proof you are nuts. No sane person reads WKA and concludes they didn’t address the meaning of NBC. Nor will any court ever descend to that level of nuttiness.
Here is a link to the NBC decision, so anyone who wants to read it for themselves can:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html
Also see:
page 382
And the Appellant’s brief to the Supreme Court:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23965360/Wong-Kim-Ark-US-v-169-US-649-1898-Appellants-Brief-USA
Luria:
“The case was heard upon an agreed statement and some accompanying papers, from all of which it indubitably appeared that Luria was born in Wilna, Russia, in 1865 or 1868,
and came to New York in 1888; that he entered a medical college of that city the next year and was graduated therefrom in 1893;
that he applied for and procured the certificate of citizenship in July, 1894;
that, in the following month, he sought and obtained a passport from the Department of State, and in November left the United States for the Transvaal, South Africa, arriving in December; that from that time to the date of the hearing, in December, 1910, he resided and practiced his profession in South Africa; that he joined the South African Medical Association and served in the Boer war;
that his only return to the United States was for four or five months in 1907, for the temporary purpose of taking a postgraduate course in a medical school in New York, and that, when entering that school, he gave as his address, Johannesburg, South Africa.”
That has nothing to do with Obama or birthers.
They only cite Minor to say:
“Under our Constitution, a naturalized citizen stands on an equal footing with the native citizen in all respects save that of eligibility to the Presidency.”