To be clear, the 14th Amendment protected the Civil Rights of freed slaves, not illegal aliens.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The 14th Amendment is by far the easiest amendment to the Constitution to misinterpret—and that has been the case repeatedly. This particular amendment broke every possible rule of constitutional government beginning with simplicity and timelessness.
The “14th is a sprawling mess meant to deal with immediate problems” that sloppily used unclear language, and quickly became a magnet for every progressive Leftist effort “to conduct backdoor rewrites of the law.” To think of practical jokes, we can imagine the drafters of this amendment are laughing in their graves at the confusion they have caused the Left as well as the frustration they have cause Conservatism.
Consider in just the last few years, the progressive Left used 4 of the 5 sections of the 14th to argue that:
– Trump was ineligible to hold office,
– Congress was obligated to raise the debt limit,
– [M]en who pretend they’re women are entitled to do so, and now
– [I]llegal aliens born in this country are automatically citizens.
We the People know exactly where Section 1 of the 14th was aimed:
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…
Was meant to protect the civil rights of freed slaves.
These words DO NOT mean:
[A]nyone who happened to give birth
in this country automatically made their kid a citizen.
However, that is the absurd premise of birthright citizenship.
And the current Trump executive order—meant to apply to future children of illegal aliens—is being challenged on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment.
This battle is almost certainly going to end up in the Supreme Court which should be interesting, though far from an inevitable happy outcome. The question We the People must ask, ‘Which High Court will show up for work the day this case is heard, the strict constitutional court or the activist progressive court?’
If We the People think Neil or Amy are going to vote to eliminate birthright citizenship, well good luck with that. Ideally, we should repeal old number fourteen which is probably the sloppiest and messiest of the amendments.
If [we] doubt that, [let us] go look up at that list above.
Not likely to happen.
NOTE: There is no such thing as birthright citizenship OR any of the other things the progressive Left keep finding in the 14th Amendment which was not written to do any of these things.
