Below are two clauses that contain words within a phrase that will be beaten to death in the coming months as the nation mulls the meaning of "Birthright Citizenship". Highlights are mine.
BOTH of these documents were proposed and discussed months apart in the SAME Congressional session by the SAME people in 1866. The 14th Amendment was proposed and passed but not ratified until 2 years later.
Why use certain words to form a phrase in one document and not the other? Why not just "copy and paste" the first phrase, that was cussed and discussed, into the second one (the 14th Amendment)?
Why the change in the construction of the phrase? There has to be a reason, right? Guessing we will hear lots of opinions in the coming days.
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States;"
Fourteenth Amendment (passed congress in 1866 and adopted in 1868)
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.
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