Originally Posted by ed good
tim, a person, physically in one of the u.s. of a states, is in the jurisdiction of said state and the federal gubmint...

if one is born here, one is a citizen of the us of a...

the children of diplomats are exceptions, who may apply for permanent residency status...

the 14th amendment lists no other specific exceptions...

do we now have to deal with conservative revisionist interpretations of the constitution...

hope not, as it means we are no different than the others trying to bend the law of the land to accommodate our own selfish interests...



Why are criminals afforded privileges denied to legally present diplomatic personnel?

The 14th was written to grant citizenship to slaves, not illegal aliens. If the amendment was reimagined and misapplied afterwards, this isn't about bending the law, it's about correcting the misapplication of the law. Originalism isn't revisionism, conservatives want to straighten the law, not bend it.



“The Fourteenth Amendment has been, without a doubt, the most dynamic part of the United States Constitution since the Civil War,” said Michael P. Zuckert, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

The amendment’s application had been a little like an accordion, with its first set of uses very narrow. “But once it started to broaden, everything becomes part of the 14th Amendment,” Zuckert said.

While the 14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery, it has been repurposed and reinterpreted over the past 157 years in cases involving American workdays, schools, train cars, interracial marriages, birth control and even the possession of pornography.


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