[RummyChick]

http://federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered.html

“What did the court do? They did just as they have done before, and what they had done in Wong Kim Ark, they simply said Congress did not mean what it said, and instead, meant “next of kin.” Who was William Gray’s “next of kin”? None other than Justice Gray himself.”

[RummyChick]

The most damning indictment against the majority’s conclusion came in the year 1874 with a joint Congressional report that declared the “United States have not recognized a double allegiance.” This makes it impossible to argue the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was merely to reassert the common law doctrine of demanding unconditional allegiance through birth. The common law doctrine by operation creates double allegiances by making children of other nation’s citizens born locally forever subjects of the crown whether they consent or not.

http://federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered.html