At the time of that Q post it was not known that BHO had given a full pardon to HRC and her ilk.

These things get tricky.

Quick History Lesson:

13th Amendment: Abolished slavery, Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.''
-The constitution of the United States, amendment 13, ratified 1865-Dec-6
100% Republican Support
23% Democratic Support

14th Amendment: Gave Citizenship to freed slaves.
94% Republican Support
0% Democratic Support
Author of the Citizenship Clause (14th Amendment), Senator Jacob M. Howard, Explains What it Means #BirthrightCitizenship #AnchorBabies

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"This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country."
Citation:

United States. Congress. The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress. Washington D.C.. UNT Digital Library.
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" 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 "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is the key qualifier.

Slaves were subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

Immigrants who's parents are foreign nationals/citizens are NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. They are foreigners, technically invaders.

Also the American Indian Nations which were INSIDE the boundaries of the United States and were under a certain amount of Federal authority were NOT covered by the 14th Amendment.

American Indians didn't get real Citizenship until like 1922.


15th Amendment: Right to vote for all
100% Republican Support
0% Democratic Support

Amendment XIII
Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6,
1865.
(Note: A portion of Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution
was changed by the 13th Amendment.)
SECTION 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

SECTION 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

Amendment XIV
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
(Note: Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution was modified by
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.)

SECTION 1.
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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

SECTION 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several
States according to their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians
not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for
the choice of electors for President and Vice President of
the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, [being twenty-one years of age,]* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

SECTION 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

SECTION 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of
pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SECTION 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
*Changed by Section 1 of the 26th Amendment.
Amendment XV
Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified February 3, 1870.
SECTION 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
SECTION 2.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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The House is discussing the 14th Amendment
Rep. Ted Poe in the House is talking about how it is that Mexico is NOW at War with the USA by means of Assymetrical Warfare. On C-Span now.

Is it all buildig to a new Mexican-American War?

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