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To: Lurking Libertarian

In other words (& in short)...WKA did NOT find him a Natural Born Citizen (& you know it).


65 posted on 11/13/2009 5:31:58 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid
In other words (& in short)...WKA did NOT find him a Natural Born Citizen (& you know it).

You're acting like I'm trying to hide that point. I said, back in post #92, that, "technically, Wong Kim Ark didn't rule on whether Ark was a natural born citizen, only on whether he was a citizen; everything else in the opinion is dicta."

There is, I believe, no single case in any American court (until this week's Indiana case) that ever directly litigated whether someone was a Natural Born Citizen for purposes of being eligible to the presidency. But the fact remains that Wong Kim Ark has a long discussion of this issue, and states (in dicta, of course) that anyone born on U.S. soil is a a natural born citizen, even if both their parents are aliens.

70 posted on 11/14/2009 3:04:17 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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