[Squeeky]

"When I [edge 919]first read the Wong Kim Ark decision a couple of years ago, I had the same opinion you did ... until I started noticing how Gray would never directly come out and say Ark was a natural-born citizen."

So, it is possible to read WKA the way I do, and the way most everybody else does. You admit that. The majority way of reading WKA is plausible. And it is the meaning that a person is likely to come away with when they read the decision.

Now, let's look at your second way of reading it, the way that you began to read it when you started having doubts about the way Judge Gray was phrasing things. What was it that made you think that your second way was right and your first way wrong. Was it something you read on the Internet???

[edge919]

So, it is possible to read WKA the way I do, and the way most everybody else does. You admit that.

Well, duh. I never claimed it wasn't possible to misread it. That's why I'm here. To help you learn. Which I've already said in post #512.

The majority way of reading WKA is plausible

Sure, but "plausible" does NOT = correct.