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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3805133" data-attributes="member: 18222">I am aware that the writer of the amendment, Sen. Howard, did so with the intent of countering the Dred Scott case by the SCOTUS, effectively limiting it to African American slaves that had been freed.Since then, the SCOTUS has quoted the case in the 1998 and held that under the Fourteenth Amendment, a man born within the United States to Chinese citizens who have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States and are carrying on business in the United States—and whose parents were not employed in a diplomatic or other official capacity by a foreign power—was a citizen of the United States. Subsequent decisions have applied the principle to the children of foreign nationals of non-Chinese descent.</blockquote>