Was it asked "Is Wong Kim Ark a natural born citizen"?
No
Did it affirm "Wong Kim Ark was a natural born citizen"?
No.
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The continued assertion is that the court proclaimed him a natural-born citizen is false.
All of the 'rationale' reasoning' and 'examples' in the world are moot because none of them can change the words contained the final determination.
Wong Kim Ark was a 'citizen of the United States'.
True, they didn't "proclaim" him a natural-born citizen. That doesn't mean he wasn't one, any more than my not proclaiming my Texan example to be from Houston doesn't mean she isn't. The fact remains that in order to find he was a citizen, they examined the meaning of "natural-born citizen" and decided he was one--as the dissenters acknowledged.