[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“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 one place in the 14th that I wish the authors had used the word 'citizen' rather than 'peerson' is in the last sentence of Section 1:

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Think of all the problems that would resolve.

[Tennessee Nana]

any person within its jurisdiction
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again with the “jurisdiction” phrase...

The writers of the Constitution never envisioned future people to be ignorant of plain speaking..

coupled with the previous part where the 14th Amendment mentions “jurisdiction”, the whole thing is self explanatory...its one long thought...its all connected..

those subject to the jurisdiction of are citizens and have certain unamiable rights..

IOW illegal aliens do not have the rights that citizens have..

When you know that the authors of the Constitution based their ideas on the Greeks and Romans and English Law, and were greatly influenced by the French Huguenots, you know that only those who are citizens can claim the Constitution as their own..

consider Roman law...when Paul who wrote much of the New Testament was being persecuted and arrested by the Roman soldiers, he protested telling them he was born in Tarsus, a Roman city and he had rights as a Roman citizen, and so they immediately left him alone, that Roman citizenship meant something..he had certain rights under the Roman version of the US Constitution..the Roman soldiers would have been executed for touching him..

but as a Jew, a non-Roman he would not have had any rights and if he had just claimed those rights the soldiers would have laughed at him and continued to arrest him..

as a citizen Paul had rights ..without that Roman citizenship he had none..

citizenship brings with it a difference or it means nothing..

the right to vote..does the Constitution give all the right to vote ??? No you have to be a citizen and over the age of 18..

Government jobs..you have to be a citizen to work for the government..

Perverting the meaning of an Amendment to satisfy an end does not mean that unconstitutional practice will be grandfathered in..

American citizens can be stripped of their citizenship, and so can illegal aliens be stripped of a citizenship that was given by fraud and deceit..the illegal aliens were not entitled to receive the status of citizen in the first place..what law allows them to keep something they never qualified for ???