Thank you!!! I am writing Internet Articles on this stuff now, and what is funny, is that it is pretty simple to understand once you read the long case about 2 or 3 times, and I am not even a lawyer. . And the short Indiana case is even easier. The Minor case is easy, too and pretty short. I had to google a couple of things like “common law” and I had to ask my BFF Fabia Sheen, Esq., a lawyer, about what happens if there is “common law” and then something like a amendment comes along, which do you go by then, but she explained it and that was easy to understand, too. Plus, I do some typing and other help for her and I had 6 hours of Business Law in college, sooo I am getting really comfortable with reading this kind of stuff, and it is not much different from being in Debate. And Drama.
Then, the rest of it is just like My Cousin Vinny, and you just have to watch for where the Vattle Birthers try to fool you.
It is obvious from a review of the case law and statutes (8 USC 1401) from the last century that Wong Kim Ark has been, and still is the leading authority regarding NBC. The dicta in Minor has not, and never will be used a precedent for nbc. Ankeney is a well written opinion that incorporates and cites the law on the nbc issues in a clear manner that is easy to understand. The opinion just blows the Vattel birthers and their crazy theory out of the water. It is representative of what an opinion out of any appellate court will write today on the nbc issue.
It is almost comical to watch Edge919 dance around the language in Ankeney. These birthers must realize that nobody outside of birther fantasyland agrees with their bogus theory.