[Cboldt]

I think everything in that post is correct. I think you don’t understand what it is saying. In pretty strong terms, the excerpts you reproduce say, in so many words, Bellei was naturalized. He doesn’t have a constitutional right to US citizenship, at all. But here is a statute that gives him citizenshiup, and we (the court) have to decide if citizenship, once granted by statute, can be taken away by statute.

[Cold Heat]

Yes, I get that, but why did they essentially nuke the statute, because that is what it appears happened here. they did not need to do that and re-interpret the 14th, did they? just to rule on the statute? They did not have to revert to jus Solis. Jus Solis is what gave us anchor babies to the chagrin of many here. Or at least the exacting originalist interpretation of Jus Solis did.

As you said, I am a crappy layer....I am not making any claim to the contrary, but I can read. And I can interpret intent and the effect of changes in law. And I do have a good idea today what was in the mind of the founders when they wrote the article.