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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 813328" data-attributes="member: 12952">In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by stating: &nbsp;&quot;Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject&nbsp; to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a&nbsp; citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons&nbsp; born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the&nbsp; families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the&nbsp; Government of the United States, but will include every other class of&nbsp; persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all&nbsp; doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States.&nbsp; This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and&nbsp; legislation of this country.&quot;The phrase &quot;subject to the jurisdiction thereof&quot; was intended&nbsp; to exclude American-born persons from automatic citizenship whose&nbsp; allegiance to the United States was not complete. With illegal aliens&nbsp; who are unlawfully in the United States, their native country has a&nbsp; claim of allegiance on the child.&nbsp; Thus, the completeness of their&nbsp; allegiance to the United States is impaired, which therefore precludes&nbsp; automatic citizenship. <a href="http://www.14thamendment.us/birthright_citizenship/original_intent.html" target="_blank">http://www.14thamendment.us/birthright_citizenship/original_intent.html</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 813328, member: 12952"] In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by stating: "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." The phrase [I]"subject to the jurisdiction thereof"[/I] was intended to exclude American-born persons from automatic citizenship whose allegiance to the United States was not complete. With illegal aliens who are unlawfully in the United States, their native country has a claim of allegiance on the child. Thus, the completeness of their allegiance to the United States is impaired, which therefore precludes automatic citizenship. [url]http://www.14thamendment.us/birthright_citizenship/original_intent.html[/url] [/QUOTE]

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