You need to read all the words in the decision. Gray is clear.
In Minor v. Happersett, Chief Justice Waite, when construing, in behalf of the court, the very provision of the Fourteenth Amendment now in question, said: "The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that."
Are you comprehending this?? The Constitution does NOT define NBC. Later, Gray says:
But citizenship by birth is established by the mere fact of birth under the circumstances defined in the Constitution. Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization.
The "circumstances" Gray is referring to is the citizenship clause in the 14th amendment, which is IN the Constitution. Read it again. When construing the 14th amendment, the Minor court said that NBC is NOT defined by the Constitution. What Gray calls "citizenship by birth" is a type of citizenship that IS defined by the Constitution, specifically by the 14th amendment. It is dependent on satisfying the subject clause, which is accomplished when the parents have permanent residence and domicil, which he explains here:
It necessarily follows that persons born in China, subjects of the Emperor of China but domiciled in the United States, having been adjudged, in Yick Wo v. Hopkins to be within the jurisdiction of the State within the meaning of the concluding sentence, must be held to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States within the meaning of the first sentence of this section of the Constitution, and their children "born in the United States" cannot be less "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
NBCs are not dependent on the 14th amendment for citizenship, which is what the Minor decision said and Gray affirmed, when he said the Supreme Court was:
.. committed to the view that all children born in the United States of citizens or subjects of foreign States were excluded from the operation of the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment ...
The first sentence of the 14th amendment is the citizenship clause. NBCs are EXCLUDED from the operation of this clause."
Absolutely BRILLIANT post! Needs to be posted again. All the Obots and the Freeper non-natural born Citizen cry baby brigade can do is cough and stammer.
Or can correct his quote taken out of context which reverses the meaning. This is why (some) of the “natural born brigade” make themselves look so foolish. Quotes out of context, repeating comments others have made without checking source material, etc.