“Your argument doesn’t fly Mr Rogers.”
Actually, you completely missed the point of the argument. My POINT was that sometimes they used NBC and sometimes they used NBS - which only makes sense if NBC = NBS.
The terms were interchangeable. In the early years, it depended on the whim of the legislature if they said new citizens had rights equal to NBS or NBC.
All of these new citizens were being naturalized, so none of them actually WERE NBCs.
So by way of holding or ruling how is Wong Kim Ark a relevant SCOTUS case on the issue of NBC?
BTW, the dicta in WKA isn't a holding or a ruling so don't even try it.
“My POINT was that sometimes they used NBC and sometimes they used NBS”
Which of course raises the question. When they read the Constitution for the first time, how would the Massachusetts’ legislators have interpeted the phrase “natural born Citizen”?