Ok, what if 200 million people were to flood into California over a 10 year period? None of them are citizens and yet now one state, under that "read" of the Constitution as amended, results in it having forty-five percent of the entire House, or one hundred and ninety-six seats.
The entirety of the rest of the nation no longer has any representation at all; the entirety of the United States House is now beholden to and both can and will pass laws on the predicate and demand of non-citizens.
This outcome is patently absurd as to "interpret" the Amendment this way means we no longer have a nation that is bounded by the Constitution and its representative process in any form. In other words this "interpretation" is an effective repeal of the entirety of the Constitution, not only as originally written but as amended.
That's absurd and thus cannot be the intent of the language in the 14th Amendment. - Karl Denninger
Excellent post. Thanks for including me on the ping list.