[piytar]

What are you talking about? Did you read the article? Look into the SCOTUS cases? Clearly not.

I’m all for the 14th Amendment. I’m just against libs who read things into it that aren’t there for political convenience, kind of like libs who read things into the 2nd Amendment that weren’t there until that was settled by the SCOTUS in Keller et al.

[familyop]

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

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.