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Dave… did you not notice that your long account of the legislative history of the 14th Amendment in the House of Representatives does not mention citizenship once?

There is a very good reason for that. There was no Citizenship Clause in the version of the Amendment that was written by Bingham and sent to the Senate. It is a simple historical fact that Bingham did not write the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment. The text of the Citizenship Clause was first offered in the Senate (of which Bingham was not a member) as an amendment to Section 1 of the joint resolution as passed by the House (which Bingham wrote). The actual author of the Citizenship Clause was Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan

You are welcome to look it up yourself.

The legislative history of the 14th Amendment is recounted in J. James, The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment (1956). See also Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction (B. Kendrick, ed. 1914). The floor debates are collected in 1 Statutory History of the United States—Civil Rights 181 (B. Schwartz, ed. 1970). All of you are welcome to actually check the sources rather than blindly accept on the false narrative promoted in this thread regarding Bingham and the 14th Amendment.

“There is a very good reason for that. There was no Citizenship Clause in the version of the Amendment that was written by Bingham”

Revisionist history.
Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 1:
The Citizenship Clause

“ All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

The John Bingham 39th Congress proposed the principle underlying the Citizenship Clause.

Unless you go along with the idea that Blacks in the USA should not have the right to bear arms.

ON MISREADING JOHN BINGHAM AND THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

John Bingham, the principal author of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment. Bingham had repeatedly stated his belief that the Fourteenth Amendment would enforce the Bill of Rights against the states.
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/aynes_14th.htm

See CONG. GLOBE, 42d Cong., 1st Sess. app. at 84 (Mar. 31, 1871); CONG. GLOBE, 39th Cong., 2d Sess. 811 (Jan. 28, 1867); CONG. GLOBE, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. 2541-42 (May 10, 1866); Id. at 1291-92 (Mar. 9, 1866); Id. at 1089-90 (Feb. 28, 1866); Id. at 1034 (Feb. 26, 1866).