"What plain reading of that sentence leads you to think that it doesn't apply to any child born here? "
First, Constitutional interpretation isn't based on the way the statutes are construed, which is what you are suggesting.
Second, Constitutional interpretation is based on what was meant and intended - and it not debatable here - it was meant to make clear
that children of slaves were legal citizens, just as white people's children and other legal citizen's children were - - not people entering
the country illegally to pop out an anchor baby.
Last edited by WmHunter; 10/30/18 12:14 PM.
