“and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”
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Right. An important clause. But it says nothing about those slaves parents. Again the NBC for BO is a seperate issue. If Obama was born in HI, he’s a US citizen at birth (albeit perhaps he was a dual citizen.) But he may not be/have been a NBC. The SCOTUS needs to rule on that.
There’s a move afoot in CA and elsewhere though to challenge the citizen status of anchor babies. This might affect this debate in the future (of who’s a citizen at birth and who a ‘natural born citizen’ is.)
It didn’t need to address the slave’s parents.
The authors of the ammendment definitely were addressing the parents of any future births. At that time, all minors were the property of their parents, and their legal status could not be ‘legal’ if their parents were not also legal.
IOW, visa or green card holders.