Did John Bingham run out of ink when penning the 14th and if not, why did he ‘fail’ to include that explanation in the text of the amendment?
Bingham had al the brains he needed, and used just exactly the amount of ink he needed.
However, certain judges since, and here I refer to at least one of the majority and probably all of them in the Kim Wong Ark case, seem to have checked their brains at the courthouse door the day they decided that case.
Even so, and as wrongly decided as hat case was, what has been done in the name of that ruling since ought to have resulted in the responsible judges and legislators swinging from gibbets. They took a Constitutional amendment which ought to have made it impossible for citizenship to devolve in the children of illegal aliens, and stood it on its head. I call that treason.