The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Act of April 9, 1866) first established a national law that provided:
“All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States.” Civil Rights Act of April 9, 1866 (14 Stat. 27). Not being subject to a foreign power includes being free from any political and military obligations to any other nation and not owing any other nation direct and immediate allegiance and loyalty. The primary author of this Act was Senator Trumbull who said it was his intention “to make citizens of everybody born in the United States who owe allegiance to the United States.” Additionally, he added if a “negro or white man belonged to a foreign Government he would not be a citizen.” In order for this requirement to be satisfied, clearly both parents of the child must be U.S. citizens, for if one is not, the child would inherit the foreign allegiance and loyalty of foreign parent and would thereby “belong to a foreign Government.”
Rep. John A. Bingham, who later became the chief architect of the 14th Amendment’s first section, in commenting upon Section 1992 of the Civil Rights Act, said that the Act was “simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen” (emphasis supplied).
Rep. Bingham said “parents.” He did not say “one parent” or “a mother or father.”
John Bingham in the United States House on March 9, 1866
Leaving aside the inaccuracy of your quote, that statement was an opinion. The actual case law does not support that opinion.
Parents obviously means a mother and a father.
People can think that NBC means something other than what originally intended. Your choice.
I did not reply nicely or properly to your reply to me.
My apologies. I just have a hair trigger on this topic.
I hope you are of the understanding that a NBC means what Bingham says in my quote. Parents meaning mother and father, pretty obvious to me.