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Thank YOU for your kind words.

I would modify your post as to one minor particular on the facts of Minor vs. Happersett. The plaintiff/claimant was Mrs. Minor and the defendant was Happersett and was presumably a man since Missouri's law at issue prohibited the registration of a woman and would have likely prevented a woman from being a registrar. Happersett was a registrar of voters in Missouri who was the nominal defendant.

I don't really know whether GEORGE Romney's paternal grandparents had renounced their American citizenship or whether any of his grandparents were born in the US or Mexico. During one of numerous Marxist rebellions in Mexico and after GEORGE Romney's birth, his father decided to move to Utah. I have heard that George's paternal grandfather had as few as four wives or as many as twelve, but have no solid proof. In the 1870s, the renowned Brigham Young, then the Mormon Prophet, determined that the Mormons should establish colonies in or near Chihuahua. If that was the reason for this branch of clan Romney to move to Mexico rather than outrage later over the USA imposing a requirement that Utah outlaw polygamy as a condition of admission to the Union is a question worth pondering in relation to whether there was intent to renounce citizenship. As to those 4-12 wives of GEORGE's grandfather, IF they were generally (whether 4 or 12) happy wives, I do admire his stamina and his social skills in serving as patriarch and a necessarily awesome referee. I find that being married to one wife is and has been enough of a challenge to suit me. God bless her.

The Founders really should have resolved the meaning of "natural born citizen" for the guidance of future generations. Since they did not, it is probably a good idea for SCOTUS to resolve it. Genuine ambiguity in the wording of an enactment is one of the most common grounds for SCOTUS to assert jurisdiction. The SCOTUS does not get to rule unless one or more cases are brought to trigger judicial jurisdiction.

I DO have to admit that "verbal left hook" is a pretty good line.