[mlo]

"Again, I believe you are profoundly wrong to put so much faith in Wong Kim Ark, perhaps the most notoriously wrongheaded Supreme Court decision of all time, but no matter how bad that decision might have been, it had NOT ONE THING to do with “natural born citizenship”."

Reading the words of the decision is not a matter of "faith". Your opinion may be that it is wrongheaded, but that doesn't make it so.

The plain words of the decision DO relate to "natural born citizenship". To claim otherwise it to be in denial. It's nonsense.

The court had to determine Wong's citizenship status by virtue of his birth. In doing so, they examined the whole question of citizenship at birth, in great detail. It goes for pages. The one passage I quoted directly speaks to natural born citizenship.

[thecodont]

The court had to determine Wong's citizenship status by virtue of his birth. In doing so, they examined the whole question of citizenship at birth, in great detail. It goes for pages. The one passage I quoted directly speaks to natural born citizenship.

Natural born citizenship is MORE than the citizenship at birth you describe, it is citizenship by NATURE and not by mere statute. For you to ignore this is to be in denial.