“And even if not a citizen, you are still a person.”
Yes, I do not disagree.
Also, a big problem with addressing documents that were written in the far past is that the meanings of certain words my COMPLETELY change even within as short a time as fifty years — let alone one hundred or two hundred years.
This is why the context of the time they were written is so important.
Thank you for your post.
Would you agree that some sort of clarification or “revisiting” of the fourteenth amendment is in order?
Oh, I wanted to add to my former post that when Mexico’s new president Calderon states that “wherever there is a Mexican, that is Mexico” he may — in the sense that they are Mexican subjects — be legally correct!
LOL!
Time to deport!
When the 14th was passed there was no such thing as illegal immigration
On July 28, 1868, Secretary Seward certified without reservation that the amendment was a part of the Constitution. In the interim, two other States, Alabama on July 13 and Georgia on July 21, 1868, had added their ratifications.