The 14th amendment says that if you are born in the US you are a citizen. Before
this amendment slaves born in the US were not citizens. Slavery was allowed by the original US Constitution but was not part of any amendment. Also, children born in the United States to citizens of other countries would not automatically be US citizens before this amendment was ratified.
Amendments to the US Constitution cannot be introduce by a private citizen. Amendments can only be introduced by a member of Congress.
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment contains the "Citizenship Clause". It's one of three Amendments passed soon after the Civil War.
Yes. All legal authorities agree on this. There is an open question of whether a child of citizens NOT born on U.S. soil is also a natural born citizen, but no disagreement about this aspect of it.
Any person who is born in US territory is considered as a native born citizen,(Children born of diplomats in foreign embassies within the US are not natural born US citizens because foreign embassies are considered to belong to nation that owns the embassy. ) There is a question about whether children born of US citizens outside of the US are natural born . This phase appears in the US Constitution as one of the requirement of the president, but the Supreme court has never ruled on its exact meaning.
The US citizen parent must have five years US residence after age 14 for the child to be a US citizen. In this case, no. The sex of the US parent has no bearing on the case.
Amendment 14 confers citizenship on all such people.
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Yes it grants citizenship to all who are born in the US.
The second amendment of the US Constitution.
Rights of the US citizen.
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The 19th amendment prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex.
You are born one .
If one or more of the parents is a US citizen, the child is a US citizen, regardless of where they are born.
The child of a US citizen is considered a US citizen.
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A native-born US citizen. This is not necessary to be president however, you need only be a natural-born US citizen.