[RegulatorCountry]

And it wasn't novel in any way, as shown by WIlliam Rawle's authoritatively proclaiming, in 1825, that it was the rule.

Well I wonder why they wasted so much time taking it all the way to the Supreme Court then, lol?

[Jeff Winston]

Well I wonder why they wasted so much time taking it all the way to the Supreme Court then, lol?

Because there were people who wanted to deny citizenship to Wong Kim Ark based not merely on the fact that his parents were non-citizens, but on the fact they were Chinese.