Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
If the parents are not subject to the juristiction of the US then their child born here is not a subject (citizen).
The law was written to protect black slaves not create a backdoor for illegals to gain citizenship.
“The law was written to protect black slaves not create a backdoor for illegals to gain citizenship.”
Precisely! And that’s clearly shown by the legislative history.
If the Supremes find/found that the legislators meant to grant automatic citizenship to any person born within our boundaries, by mere birth, then they’ve simply found another `penumbral’ right.
In any event, isn’t a SCOTUS that simply rules upon law, and does not make law, what so many of us worked so hard for to see realized?