[sourcery]

Actually, before the 14th Amendment, US citizenshp was limited to two classes: Those granted citizenshp by Congressional statute (which included some of those born on US soil, since there was in fact a statutory provision for that case,) and those who had natural citizenship without recourse to Congressional statute. Which the Court in Minor held included only those born on US soil to parents who were US citizens.

[BladeBryan]

sourcery: “Actually, before the 14th Amendment, US citizenshp was limited to two classes: Those granted citizenshp by Congressional statute (which included some of those born on US soil, since there was in fact a statutory provision for that case,) and those who had natural citizenship without recourse to Congressional statute.”

I guess that means you read your own citations and found that you were wrong. On the other hand, when I wrote “before the 14’th Amendment” I overlooked the Amendment’s immediate predecessor, the Civil Rights Act of 1866.