[monkeywrench]

"This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.[1]

"It is clear the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment had no intention of freely giving away American citizenship to just anyone simply because they may have been born on American soil, something our courts have wrongfully assumed..."

40 lodwick

There are many sources out there that quote Senator Jacob Howard, and what he intended with the 14th ammendment.

[Jeff Head]

This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens

Amen...it was clear at the time what was intended and it is clear now...irrespective of activist Judges or others who push what was not intended upon us all.

[bayourod]

One of the first rules of construing the intent of legislation is that you can not look to statements by the legislators as to what they meant. This is universally recognized by liberals as well as strict constructionist.

Courts will call lawyers down for trying to quote authors of bills as to what they intend the meaning of the bill to be.

That's because each person who votes on a bill (or Constitutional Amendment) has his own reasons and interpretations of the bill.

"Original intent" has to be divined from the circumstances surrounding the enactment, not what people said the intent was at the time.