Section 1. 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.
I’m having a hard time finding any way to interpret this other than anyone born in the US is a citizen. There is no wiggle room that I can find. I don’t like it, but if I try to interpret this, I’ll have to allow others to interpret the 2nd amendment as well.
Section 1. 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.
I’m having a hard time finding any way to interpret this other than anyone born in the US is a citizen. There is no wiggle room that I can find. I don’t like it, but if I try to interpret this, I’ll have to allow others to interpret the 2nd amendment as well.
What “Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof” Really Means:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2139082/posts
MORE:
Using native Americans as a reference to show that “born on soil” does not always confer “natural born Citizen” status:
“After the Civil War when citizenship rights were extended through the Fourteenth Amendment to ex-slaves and to ‘{All} persons BORN or naturalized in the United States,’ that Amendment still excluded individual Indians from citizenship rights and excluded them from being counted towards figuring congressional representation unless they paid taxes. This demonstrates that Congress still considered Indians to be citizens of OTHER sovereign governments even in 1868 when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted.” (emphases mine)
http://www.flashpointmag.com/amindus.htm
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