[patlin]

Treaties do not override, but they also are suppose to comply within the provisions of the constitution, therefore since Congress held the power over who could be naturalized & who couldn't, they held the power to determine which aliens could become citizens and the Chinese Exclusion act included Chinese immigrants and their children.

WKA was judicial verbicide in which Grey legislated from the bench with absolutely no constitutional authority to do so.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Treaties do not override, but they also are suppose to comply within the provisions of the constitution, therefore since Congress held the power over who could be naturalized & who couldn't, they held the power to determine which aliens could become citizens and the Chinese Exclusion act included Chinese immigrants and their children.

The crux of the WKA issue is that his parents could never become citizens by statute of Congress; however, his status - by virtue of birth - was set by the 14th Amendment. Congressional statute does not override Constitutional rights. Whether you agree with Grey or not, it is the law of the land, and has been upheld by subsequent SC decisions.