It appears that Virginia Minor was, for her time a feminist radical, who tried to register to vote in Missouri which limited the franchise to men in the immediate post-Civil War era. One jurisdictional question before the SCOTUS was whether Minor was a citizen with standing to sue in Missouri's trial and State Supreme Court and before SCOTUS. The SCOTUS in an opinion by its Chief Justice observed that she was a citizen by even the "narrowest" definition of the term since both of her parents were American citizens and she was born in the United States. That does not limit "natural born citizen" much less "citizen" to those born here of two American parents.
Assuming that the question was as to HER citizenship, the Court included her in that category but did not EXCLUDE anyone.
The case also stands for the proposition that women, citizens or not, have no constitutional right to vote, which is the actual holding in the case, rendered obsolete by the 19th Amendment conferring the right to vote on women. Nice try, but invalid cherry-picking of an obsolete case. No cigar!
Hopefully President Cruz will lead to a tomorrow in which Roe vs. Wade is just as obsolete through sensible SCOTUS appointments to replace Ginsberg, Kagan, Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer (all ASAP) and, if needed, recharge the other seats, all with highly qualified young nominees to cause mass outmigration of leftists, native born or not. Irreversible despair will do that for them.
God bless you and yours!
Ted Cruz claims the repealed and obsolete 1790 Naturalization Act.
