| It found that the issue of a foreign national, if born in US territory, would be a “natural born subject”. Subject and citizen are interchangeable as they were quoting from English precedent. Which English precedence is this? |
The one written by Lord Coke in Calvin’s case.
From Wong Kim Ark....
“His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate, and, although but local and temporary, continuing only so long as he remains within our territory, is yet, in the words of Lord Coke in Calvin’s Case, 7 Coke, 6a, ’strong enough to make a natural subject, for, if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject’; and his child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, ‘If born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle”