… it does not say all persons born in the United States become citizens of the United States. It's all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to The amendment was passed coming out of the Civil War. Congress was afraid the Democrats would try to undermine the results of that war by forbidding former slaves from voting. And clearly that's what the amendment was supposed to deal with. It did not include anybody who just happened to show up here and have a baby and moved on. (00:19–00:39)
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Asserts that the 14th Amendment was passed to prevent Democrats from stopping former slaves from voting.
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