[sometime lurker]

The quote butcher is at again, only this time he hacked off a bigger piece! Edge's version:

Justice Gray notes that the Minor decision excluded children born of citizen parents from the 14th amendment: "...all children born in the United States of citizens or subjects of foreign States were excluded from the operation of the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment is manifest from a unanimous judgment of the Court ..."

The unadulterated version from WKA:

That neither Mr. Justice Miller nor any of the justices who took part in the decision of The Slaughterhouse Cases understood the court to be committed to the view that all children born in the United States of citizens or subjects of foreign States were excluded from the operation of the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment is manifest from a unanimous judgment of the Court...

Kinda changes things, doesn't it?

[edge919]

No, actually it doesn't change it at all when you can actually read and understand ALL the words. The fact that all children born of citizen parents were excluded from the operation of the first sentence of the 14th amendment is supported by the words in the Minor V. Happersett where it says women did not need the amendment to confer citizenship upon them and where it says that Virginia Minor's citizenship was NOT conferred by the 14th amendment and in the syllabus where it said, "women, of born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the United States, have always been considered citizens of the United States, as much so before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution as since." All THREE of the citations from Minor support the idea that children born in the U.S. of citizens were EXCLUDED from the citizen clause of the 14th amendment. That neither Miller nor the other Slaughterhouse judges understood this two years earlier does NOT change the fact that these same judges all voted UNANIMOUSLY to exclude Virginia Minor, women and all persons born of citizen parents from the 14th amendment. The only quote butchering is done by you by trying to pretend the first few words of the sentence change the facts that are supported and can be proven.