This is where you're lost - and I don't know why you keep
Posted on: October 30, 2018 at 10:17:08 CT
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posting that same OPINION PIECE, that is not the constitutional language.
The 14th Amendment states: "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..."
Nowhere in there do I see the language that you continue to post (i.e. "only children born to parents who owed no foreign allegiance were to be citizens of the United States – that is to say – not only must a child be born but born within the complete allegiance of the United States politically and not merely within its limits.")
The key issue is whether or not a newborn (on US soil) is subject to the jurisdiction of the US & state government....Indians are specifically not subject to the state laws (hence the Indian Citizenship Act), whereas citizens of other countries ARE subject to US & state laws.
Edited by tigerdb at 10:17:21 on 10/30/18