You asked how old I was and then said: I’m sorry, but this is kind of a “duh” moment. We get done with a bloody Civil War, and then this guy claims that one of the major reason for the war had never even existed for the previous 300 years?
Uh, how old are you??? Laws and stuff applied to white people that did not apply to blacks, and slaves, and even. . . WOMEN!!! That is why they passed the 14th Amendent to make it apply to everybody.
Sooo what, now you are trying NOT to believe your eyes about what Wong Kim Ark says, by fussing about Dred Scott and slaves??? Quit playing games and just read the case. This kind of stuff is why Mark Levin and other people are telling Vattle Birthers they are stupid and not rational.
I have read the case. That should be obvious to anybody who has read my comments.
Wong Kim Ark didn’t decide anything about NBC, although it used a citation from Dred Scott to conclude that “natural born” means “born in the US”. If the Dred Scott court had meant that, they would have concluded that Blacks were eligible to be POTUS but in reality they concluded that Blacks have the same rights and protections as cattle. So I somehow think that the Wong Kim Ark court misunderstood the Dred Scott reference.
What it comes down to is this: the Wong Kim Ark court didn’t cite anything from the Founding Fathers regarding “natural born citizen” and they probably felt they didn’t need to because the issue before them was not specifically about “natural born citizenship”. It was about any of the ways that a person could be a US citizen. They said that a person born on US soil to aliens is a US citizen at birth.
They cited Minor v Happersett but missed the main point of that very Minor v Happersett reference they gave - which is that there were still legal questions, even after the 14th Amendment was ratified, as to whether anybody but a person born on US soil to US citizens could be a “natural born citizen”. That DOESN’T sound like the Minor v Happersett court understood the Dred Scott decision to mean that “citizen at birth” is the same thing as “natural born citizen”. The Minor v Happersett court didn’t decide the issue of NBC because it was outside the scope of the case, and it was also outside the scope of Wong Kim Ark.