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Forget about the sourcing. I did my own research, and am 90% satisfied that the quote is legit.

Congratulations! You win the argument with me!

For the sake of this thread. I still have my reservations. I am aware of how easy it is to manufacture phony quotes on the internet. I suspect that if I went to the effort of actually tracing the guote into the Congressional Globe I would actually find it there. With about 90% probability. That does leave the other 10%, doesn't it?

Now, how are you going to get the Supreme Court to agree with you? Because if they say your argument doesn't hold water, you're out of business. And they already said so in United States v. Wong Kim Ark. And they based that on English common law, which precedes the 14th Amendment.

So you will have to get the Supreme Court to agree with you. You care to give me your best estimate of the odds on that? I have one. It isn't good.

If they go with English common law you will still lose.

Me, I still think a Constitutional Amendment is the only way you're going to get the result you want. Which as I said upthread in another post (maybe to you, maybe to someone else), is the result I want. Let's have no mistake about that.