United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649 (1898) The court ordered Wong Kim Ark to be discharged, upon the ground that he was a citizen of the United States 1 Fed Rep 382 The United States appealed to this court, and the appellee was admitted to bail pending the appeal
UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK. - LII Legal Information Institute At the hearing, the district attorney of the United States was permitted to intervene in behalf of the United States, in opposition to the writ, and stated the grounds of his intervention in writing, as follows:
United States v. Wong Kim Ark - Wikipedia Wong Kim Ark was the first Supreme Court case to decide on the status of children born in the United States to alien parents This decision established an important precedent in its interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution [2]
United States v. Wong Kim Ark | Constitution Center In a 6-to-2 decision, the Court ruled in favor of Wong Kim Ark Because he was born in the United States and his parents were not “employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China,” the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment automatically made him a U S citizen
United States v. Wong Kim Ark | Oyez Justice Horace Gray authored the opinion on behalf of a 6-2 majority, in which the Court established the parameters of the concept known as jus soli—the citizenship of children born in the United States to non-citizens
United States v. Wong Kim Ark - Civic Ed It is conceded that, if he is a citizen of the United States, the acts of congress known as the 'Chinese Exclusion Acts,' prohibiting persons of the Chinese race, and especially Chinese laborers, from coming into the United States, do not and cannot apply to him
United States v. Wong Kim Ark | Densho Encyclopedia Wong Kim Ark (1898) is the Supreme Court ruling that determined the 14th Amendment to the U S Constitution granted birthright citizenship to all persons born in the United States regardless of race or nationality