It simply states: “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 simply states: “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.”
I suspect the argument in court will be that the Representatives who wrote the Amendment didn't intend for it to cover illegals. I've seen this claimed recently.
I am certain that the authors of the 2nd amendment didn't intend it to apply to semi-automatic weapons. I suspect they meant it to apply to well regulated militias formed to help the Army defend our democracy against the British.
That’s an easy claim! Of course they didn’t. Automatic weapons didn’t exist then. However, the Court found in its Heller decision that the right for individuals to arm themselves was not absolute. Like, individuals couldn’t own nuclear weapons to protect themselves from a tyrannical government.
The 14th amendment makes no mention of parents:
It simply states: “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.”
I suspect the argument in court will be that the Representatives who wrote the Amendment didn't intend for it to cover illegals. I've seen this claimed recently.
I am certain that the authors of the 2nd amendment didn't intend it to apply to semi-automatic weapons. I suspect they meant it to apply to well regulated militias formed to help the Army defend our democracy against the British.
That’s an easy claim! Of course they didn’t. Automatic weapons didn’t exist then. However, the Court found in its Heller decision that the right for individuals to arm themselves was not absolute. Like, individuals couldn’t own nuclear weapons to protect themselves from a tyrannical government.