And lets not forget that we got the 14th amendment as well, but do you understand what it really means.
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT- REVISITED
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whoru/message/2
Re http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whoru/message/2
Interesting.
Another critique states,
Please remember why this amendment was a necessity to the U.S. Constitution and for what reasons it needed to be clarified from the original writing just shy of 100 years earlier.
Senator Jacob Howard of Ohio was the author of the ‘Citizenship Clause’ and defended the new language against the charge that it would make Indians citizens of the United States. Senator Howard assured skeptics that “Indians born within the limits of the United States, and who maintain their tribal relations, are not, in the sense of this Amendment, born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.” (As a sidebar: Why would people from Middle or South America be construed as any different?) http://onemorecup.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/revisit-the-fourteenth-amendment-in-content-and-context/
I am not educated enough in all the aspects this relates to and am recovering from sickness, but maybe someone else has a comment.