[Mr Rogers]

“B) The Supreme Court provided an exclusive definition of natural-born citizen in at least TWO landmark cases, Minor v. Happersett AND U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, the latter of which confirmed the definition in the former: all children born in the country of citizen parents.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Link to WKA, if any birthers care to read an actual decision, instead of living in WND-land...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html

[edge919]

The last mention of the term "natural-born citizen" in WKA ... PLUS the holding from Minor:

At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children, born in a country of [p680] parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further, and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction, without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class, there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens.

Minor v. Happersett (1874), 21 Wall. 162, 166-168. The decision in that case was that a woman born of citizen parents within the United States was a citizen of the United States, although not entitled to vote, the right to the elective franchise not being essential to citizenship.

We all know that Justice Gray took exception to the Slaughterhouse ruling on the subject clause, but he took NO exception to the Minor definition of NBC ... AND he affirmed Virginia Minor's citizenship was due to birth in the country to citizen parents. Why would Gray mention she was born to citizen parents when the Minor decision does NOT specify this fact??

[philman_36]

@Mr Rogers and his Epic Fail

[W. W. SMITH]

I read that entire case CDR and you are still wrong! No where did it say that natural born is other than born with both parents citizens at the time of that birth.