[WilliamofCarmichael]

I do not understand the meaning of your last two replies.

Nazis?

The 14th Amendment? That's what the article is about especially the meaning of jurisdiction.

[familyop]

This should clear it up.

There are some verbose arguments against the Fourteenth Amendment, but they come from individuals whose parents or grandparents are from Cuba, or Germany around World War 2 or before. Those of you who want to turn our United States into Soviet Balkan Germanistan, get out of my country.

If you want to enforce existing laws against the flood of slave peasants and rich foreign tyrants, stick with that. Stop judicial activism. It comes from “der old country,” and it’s gone way too far. If you only want to come here for the money instead of becoming a real American, go away.

[familyop]

To be subject to the jurisdiction of a defined area is to be subject to the laws and presiding courts of that area. Foreign visitors are subject to the laws of the United States and the state that they are visiting with a few exceptions (e.g., foreign diplomats).

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Law Dictionary: What is JURISDICTION? definition of JURISDICTION (Black's Law Dictionary)

The power and authority constitutionally conferred upon (or constitutionally recognized as existing in) a court or judge to pronounce the sentence of the law, or to award the remedies provided by law, upon a state of facts, proved or ad- mitted, referred to the tribunal for decision, and authorized by law to be the subject of investigation or action by that tribunal, and in favor of or against persons (or a res) who present themselves, or who are brought, before the court in some manner sanctioned by law as proper and sufficient. 1 Black, Judgm.