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There is no Amendment that declares all persons born or naturalized in the United States to be citizens. The Fourteenth Amendment states:
"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 it's jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"
XIV Amendment (In part.)
A careful reading of all statutory schemes is essential to understanding any law and in the United States everyone is presumed to know the law. The rules of statutory construction require that each and every word be given significance. The difference between what the question implies and what the Amendment actually states is the difference between rights granted by constitution and the natural rights that each and every person born are in possession of. Anyone familiar with the first 10 Amendments in the Bill of Rights all ready knows that there is a certain redundancy to the 14th Amendment. A persons right to due process of law is all ready listed the fourth through eight Amendments, the Declaration of Independence all ready declared that all people had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and equal protection under the law all ready existed, except of course, for those slaves who had just been emancipated by the Thirteenth Amendment.
Due to an unfortunate clause in the Constitution, Article I section two, salves had been relegated as "other persons" and only counted as "three fifths" of a person. This horrendous construction is the source of the Fourteenth Amendment, supposedly in an attempt to rectify the problem created by the Article I section two. The Fourteenth Amendment was an "attempt" to protect former slaves from injustice. That it is interpreted the way it is now, such as the questions interpretation is not just unfortunate, it is flat out horrifying. In order to be subject to the United States jurisdiction, one would have to be guilty or, or at the very least suspected of being guilty of committing some crime or owe a tax that the person has been made liable for before there is jurisdiction. The United States federal government does not have jurisdiction over all persons born or naturalized in the United States until those persons have either granted jurisdiction or created jurisdiction through some harm or action they have done that would allow the federal government to act.
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What amendment said you can be born in the US but NOT be a citizen?
The 14th amendment says that if you are born in the US you are a citizen. Beforethis 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.
Which amendment guarantees that all persons born or naturalized in the US are citizen of the US and the states where they reside?
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Which amendment to the U.S. constitution gave citizenship to all people born in the United sta?
The 14th amendment to the U.S Constitution establishes what a 'natural born citizen' is, and states that all 'natural born citizens', are American citizens.
Which amendment to the U.S Constitution gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S?
The 14th amendment to the U.S Constitution establishes what a 'natural born citizen' is, and states that all 'natural born citizens', are American citizens.
Which amendment to the U.S constitution gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.?
The 14th amendment to the U.S Constitution establishes what a 'natural born citizen' is, and states that all 'natural born citizens', are American citizens.
What is a natural born citizen?
A person born in the territory of the United States of America or to United States citizen parents would be a natural born citizen of the United States.
What amendment to the constitution gave citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States?
That was the 14th Amendment, designed to guarantee the citizenship of newly freed slaves at the time (since the Civil War had just ended).
What a natural Born citizen?
A person born in the territory of the United States of America or to United States citizen parents would be a natural born citizen of the United States.
What issue was unresolved at the constitutional convention?
The most important issue left unresolved was there was no definition of who a citizen of the United States was. Well until the 14 amendment was ratified in 1868 stating that any person born or naturalized in the United States was a citizen.
From a different country but was born in United States . am i a United States citizen?
Yes, anyone born in the United States is automatically a US citizen.
How did the fourteenth amendment change the legal status of African Americans who had been enslaved but were born outside the untied states?
The 14th amendment says that everyone is to be treated equally no matter what their color or where they come from
Should the United States constitution allow foreign born citizen to serve as president of the united state?
It does not now, and any change would require a Constitutional Amendment.
