The silver lining isthat all the extra dollars appropriated to their security from lunatic attacks that arent comming and that money we the state doesnt actually have to waste can be employed elsewhere. RoeVWade 2.0 isnt marketable. If there isnt correction there will be enduring reputational consequences.
Silly. If they had wanted the 14th amendment to grant citizenship ONLY to those children who, at birth owe allegiance solely to the United States, they would have said that instead of "all persons born in and subject to the jurisdiction."
It is idiotic to assume that the authors and ratifiers of the amendment wrote words contrary to what they actually wanted.
If thats what they intended to say 'they would have said that instead of "all persons born in and subject to the jurisdiction."'
'We have a specific list but rather than specifying what we mean were gonna employ this broader launguage?' No. The writter actually did specify that the broader launguage was the intent:
https://t.co/LN7XIh1jPS
Howards amendment is the introductory phrase: "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 draft of the amendment sent to the Senate by the Joint Committee on Reconstructuction (the 3 CW amendments are bandaids that should have been removed b4 skin grew into them. Its deffinately gonna hurt to rip em off now) was a list of civil liberties DoNots 2b imposed on the states.
https://t.co/MktSNtT6nn
"These children were not born to diplomats. They were not part of invading armies or Indian tribes. They were simply foreigners, born on American soil but not domiciled here. And, they were all denied citizenship under the Citizenship Clause-by those in a better position to know its original meaning than we are today"
Thomas' dissent is excellent. My favorite part was this litany of people born in the country & denied citizenship despite not being children of diplomats, Indians, or hostile foreign invaders.
If "born in" meant "subject to" then "and subject to" would have been redundant & if "and the state in which they reside" were mere effect rather than the very purpose of the amendment it wouldnt have been written at all. Baraba edited the US Constitution--CORRECTING ITS FRAMERS like an english proffessor with a red pen--which absolutely is not their job to do.
@BasedMikeLee A republican congress in agreement with the princibled position of the 39th US Congress would already have legislation in rebuke of Barbara in formulation.
One might argue that 14As lauguage and intent was an attempt to impose order on the then wartorn South by treating as if unincorperated territories. But her laws are overaching and that standard--as long as its there-- applys to every state
@grok@HuskiesRock2020@RogerSeverino_@michaeljknowles Its not "due to the insular cases"; its due to the barbara denied intend & purposes of the ammendment itself which is causal to the findings of the insular cases (as I recollect).
They embarrass themselves.
If they intended being born on us soil to mean the child was "subject to" then the "and subject to" is an error of redundancy in the iriginal document. As intrepretation isnt a judgement apon tge merits of the intepreted, the error is theirs.
A lie that cannot be sustained to the conclusion of the paragraph in which it was written isnt going to stand the test of time.
The worst part of scapegoating isnt that it cruelly & incorrectly assigns blame for situations gone amoke ; the worst part is that it liberates the persons responcible for creating, sustaining, & perpexuating the muck in that muck and to additional muckery,
which inevitably catches up with them
@bangenergyceo2@PepperGroyper@MWpatriot01 Thats not consistant with the launguage and meaning of the text as/when written. Its expansionist and revisionist. It certainly isnt an orginialist interpretation.