So then "intent" is irrelevant? Please explain that contradiction. Be sure to include your "intent" and whether it is to be considered as being relevant to your reply.
When I was in 2nd grade we had one of those workbook exercises where you had to match a question with an answer by drawing a line across two columns. I knew the answer to question 5 was C, but my line pointed somewhere between C and D. My teacher marked it wrong. "But I meant to draw it to C!" I said. "But you didn't!" she replied.
No. Given the manifestly simple language of the 14th Amendment, its authors' intent means nothing.