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To: Mr Rogers
Here is what it says:

“The real object of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, in qualifying the words, “All persons born in the United States” by the addition “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”...

Instead of relying on a misinterpretation, why not just go by what the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the object of the 14th Amendment was when specifically discussing the insertion of the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" clause in the 14th Amendment during the Congressional debates?

That would be:

"The provision is, that ‘all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.’ That means ‘subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.’ What do we mean by ‘complete jurisdiction thereof?’ Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means." Congressional Globe

That's primary source FACT, right there. The Senate Judiciary Committee's website describes the crucial role the Committee played in the drafting of the 14th Amendment:
History of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

If anyone would know what was actually intended by the ratification of 14th Amendment, that would most definitely be Trumbull, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was specifically meant to EXCLUDE anyone owing allegiance to anybody else. Obama owed allegiance to a foreign sovereign at birth, a FACT already admitted to by the Democratic National Committee.

311 posted on 02/07/2012 1:44:28 PM PST by Rides3
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To: Rides3
I'll see your Congressional Globe quote and match you (Cong Globe p572):
"The Senator from Missouri and myself desire to arrive at the same point precisely, and that is to make citizens of everybody born in the United States who owe allegiance to the United States. We cannot make a citizen of a child of a foreign minister who is temporarily residing here. There is a difficulty in framing the amendment [to the Act] so as to make citizens of all people born in the United States who owe allegiance to it. I thought that might perhaps be the best form in which to put the amendment at one time, 'That all persons born in the United States and owing allegiance thereto are hereby declared to be citizens;' but upon investigation it was found that a sort of allegiance was due to the country from persons temporarily resident in it whom we would have no right to make citizens, and that that form would not answer."

351 posted on 02/07/2012 4:36:24 PM PST by sometime lurker
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