Do you know the history of the 14th amendment?
The ratification of the 13th Amendment was a major victory for the North, and it was hoped that with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, the effects of slavery in the United States would quickly diminish. The original plan to readmit states after acceptance of the 13th was supported by President Andrew Johnson, but the Radical Republicans, as they became known, wanted more than just a return to normalcy. They wanted to keep the power they had attained during the war years. The South did not make it easy for Johnson, however, and the so-called Black Codes started to be passed in Southern states. Congressional inquiries into the Black Codes found them to be a new way of controlling ex-slaves, fraught with violence and cruelty.
The ensuing Reconstruction Acts placed the former CSA states under military rule, and prohibited their congressmen's readmittance to Congress until after several steps had been taken, including the approval of the 14th Amendment. The 14th was designed to ensure that all former slaves were granted automatic United States citizenship, and that they would have all the rights and privileges as any other citizen. The amendment passed Congress on June 13, 1866, and was ratified on July 9, 1868 (757 days).
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that's how they are, they are feeding off the black peoples rights. i wonder why blacks are not angry about this. it's not right, and unconstitutional. but hey we already know what the bush thinks about our Constitution, to him it's just a piece of GD paper.
Is that english? because i am lost! What is your point?
The sentence is "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."
It doesn't address how they were born here, just that they were born here. Seems pretty clear to me.
Go to this site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fourteenth...
That You very much for that announcement. It was for slaves, former slaves and their children. Not Illegal Immigrants. Slavery was still being practiced Illegally into the 1960's in the south! They were interviewed on ABC News not too long ago and some of them still think African Americans are their servants! Some to this day will attempt to steal their educational credits and identities, if they have less ethnic names.
The 'bill of rights' are written in plain English - the other Amendments are written in 'legalees'.
Prior to the 14th Amendment, a Citizen of the United States meant a Citizen of one of the states united. (to many crt decisions to provide here. ) U were a Citizen of a state (state Citizen) and none other. Many blacks were state Citizens in the north. State Citizens have 'fundamental Rights' given to them by their creator. In my case, that would be God given Rights.
After slavery ended, many southern states still refused to recognize former slaves as Citizens, so Congress passed the 14th Amendment so they would have Federal Citizenship. Federal Citizens do NOT have fundamental Rights, they have civil Rights. Civil Rights are created by Congress, and thus their creator (Congress) can take away those Rights at any time.
"A 'civil right' is considered a right given and protected by law, and a person's enjoyment thereof is regulated entirely by the law that creates it."
82 CA 369, 373, 255, P 760.
I'm a California state Citizen, as is my Right. (numerous sup crt states this to b a fact) Do you want 'fundamental Rights' or 'civil Rights'. Again, u choose.
The civil Rights Acts and the 14th Amendment are codified in title 42. Here's what the United States Code says:
42 USC 1981(a): All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens.
ยง1981: All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
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Still to this day u can be a state Citizen and not a Federal. Which do u choose?
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