Gray affirmed, when he said the Supreme Court was:What the actual quote said:.. 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 ...
That neither Mr. Justice Miller nor any of the justices who took part in the decision of The Slaughterhouse Cases understood the court to be 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 is manifest from a unanimous judgment of the Court.Try to weasel out in any way you like, but you did truncate the quote to reverse the meaning.
Holy crap. How bitter and creepy is this or are you just a glutton for mental punishment?? You’re still trying desperately to salvage a point and save face that has been smacked down thoroughly. “Truncating” the quote did NOT reverse the meaning of anything. The court UNANIMOUSLY rejected a claim of citizenship based on the 14th amendment because V. Minor fit the court’s definition of NBC. The neither...nor construction was used by Gray to explain why the so-called ‘standard exceptions’ were not the ONLY exceptions to the 14th amendment. The same people who voted for those exceptions later voted UNANIMOUSLY that “all children born in the country of parents who were its citizens” were natural born citizens and that their citizenship was NOT dependent on the 14th amendment. That neither of the justices understood does NOT change this core fact. The court was committed to the view that NBCs were excluded from the operation of the citizen clause of the 14th amendment.