[Lmo56]

Widjet Jr -

You CLEARLY haven’t read the text of the Ark decision.

Although Justice Gray’s dicta [rationale for his opinion] indicates that he believes that Ark was natural born, the dicta DOES NOT COUNT as the decision.

As in ALL SCOTUS decisions,the words in the declaratory statement at the end of the text ARE the decision. NOTHING ELSE.

I NEVER TOLD YOU ARK WAS NATURALIZED, I TOLD YOU THAT HE WAS DECLARED A CITIZEN UNDER THE TEXT OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT, AS PER THE WRITTEN DECISION. ARK WAS NOT DECLARED TO BE NATURAL BORN !!!

[Electric Graffiti]

Widjet jr sounds like an afterbirther retread

[Widget Jr]

First, I don't think the Cornell Law Encyclopedia is a student paper. I'd sooner trust that than the web page of a PAC that the FEC disbanded in 2016 for not filing anything for three years. I checked the PAC number. Second, there are only two types of U.S. citizens, natural born and naturalized. There is no third category for legally born, yet not natural born. The USSC ruled Ark was a citizen at birth. By calling Ark a citizen at birth, it means the same thing natural born citizen, even if the court did not explicity use that specific langauge.