Care4all
Warrior Princess
- Mar 24, 2007
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That's how it worked before the 14th amendment, if you were born on this soil, you automatically had citizenship.It is hard to believe that the intent of the 14th amendment was to pretend jurisdiction over someone merely born here and raised in a different homeland, sometimes a very hostile homeland.
what the 14th did, is give that same right to everyone... not just white Europeans, but the ex-slaves.
jus soil is how citizenship was given in the US...through common law, before and after we won the revolution and became a nation.. up until the 14th, which then gave that same jus soil to the ex-slaves.