I see you’ve asked me more about it. I still don’t understand what you’re getting at. The court did not pronounce Ark eligible for the presidency, and they did not in so many words name him a natural born citizen. That wasn’t the question before them.
BUT the reasoning that lay behind their finding that he was a citizen was that he fit the criterion for natural born citizen, and if he was one of those, he must be a citizen. Fuller realized the implication of that as regards eligibility for the presidency—not necessarily for Ark, but for other people in his circumstances—and brought it up as part of his dissent. Again, where’s the confusion?
BUT, nowhere does he fit the criteria! If he HAD fit the criteria then it would have been ruled so. It WASN'T ruled so and that means the only place he fits the criteria is in the cranial pans of those wishing it WERE so.
I mean...COME ON! You're the presiding SCOTUS judge and you don't find WITH the criteria. Your rulings should confirm the criteria, not contravene the criteria as that ruling did.