Indians taxed or not taxed? Slaves were the property of citizens, they were not citizens.
How could that matter? The RULE is that they were "born here." Any other consideration is irrelevant. That's what I keep hearing from your side.
I just don't understand how you people can believe a theory with such obvious holes in it.
Slaves were the property of citizens, they were not citizens.
After the 14th amendment they were. The question is whether or not these non-citizens became retroactively "natural born citizens." I think it's a pretty good trick to pass a law making someone "natural born" retroactively. It seems to me like the very opposite of "natural."