Hans Von Spakovsky on Life, Liberty and Levin. “Look, if you look at the history of the 14th Amendment, you look at its passage, it was very clear that it did not confer birthright citizenship. In fact, most of the legal scholars today, liberal ones who say it does, obviously have never looked at the original history of its passage and they ignore the second half of the citizenship provision. Now, what it says is, you’re a citizen if you’re born or naturalized in the US and you are subject to its jurisdiction, and that second phrase is crucial. Lyman Trumbull who was one of the senators who was a key sponsor and writer of this amendment said that means you are, you owe your political allegiance to the United States, not to any foreign power, and an individual who was born in the United States, whose parents are citizens of a foreign country, whether they are here legally or illegally owes his or her political allegiance to that foreign country, they are not citizens of the US.”
