This amendment need to be categorized as it was cast. What was it intended for and why was it approved. Today, neither of those reasons apply. So, do we remove the amendment or leave it on the books.
Sometimes it is necessary to amend to Constitution, not often, but sometimes it is necessary. Today, we have an unscrupulous class of people taking advantage of this amendment and that is not right...nor a privilege.
There are times that the Constitution should be amendment and this may be one of those.
Not really sure just why non citizens births should be automatically granted citizenship...and doubt that those that wrote the Constitution would have thought different.
But what they intended it for wasn't an authority they possessed.
The ability to make a regular rule for naturalization is noway connected to the ability to create citizenship.
Until the 14th, the line between State citizens and citizens of the United States were well known.
§ 1218. The inhabitants enjoy all their civil, religious, and political rights. They live substantially under the same laws, as at the time of the cession, such changes only having been made, as have been devised, and sought by themselves. They are not indeed citizens of any state, entitled to the privileges of such; but they are citizens of the United States. They have no immediate representatives in congress.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution
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The 14th attempted to blur the jurisdictional boundary between the states and the federal government.
And now the federal organ has become a parasite that is killing the very thing it was created to protect.