Finally, a Fourteenth Amendment challenge makes it to our Supreme Court! This is in line with my long-held belief against these birthright citizenship rulings, which reward every lawbreaker who
seeks for her child to be born in “the land of plenty.”
What should have been a Congress-enacted, time-restricted law, ensuring all the rights and freedoms of American citizenship during the transition from bondage to freedom, and as the American people adjusted to it, was elaborated into this wordy, five-sectioned Amendment.
This took place in the earlier years of today’s party politics, yet muscles were still flexed for what should have been a limited, short, and sweet law. However, it was unbelievably upgraded to Constitutional status. Therefore, today’s Presidential challenge merely questions this abusive misinterpretation of the most effectual phrase of the Amendment.
Fortunately, in addition to this legal challenge, my angst is bolstered by a democrat Congressman, the late Larry MacDonald, who was also the president of the John Birch Society, who wrote an entire chapter in his book, We Hold These Truths, entitled “The Illegal Fourteenth.” Included within: “The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was copied from the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.” He then adds that this “forced federal due process procedural rules upon the states.” This actually violates America’s varied structure of authority of the federal, state, and local.
Another MacDonald tidbit was from the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1873 Slaughter House Cases stating, “…the Court majority observed that the sole purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was ‘the freedom of the slave race.’” It would seem that this challenge, Presidential or not, was long overdue to be heard by our Supreme Court!
Additional evidence supporting this challenge comes from Sen. Jacob Howard, who wrote the amendment’s citizenship clause, which states; This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens…” Another contributor, Ohio Congressman John Bingham, added, “Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is…a natural born citizen.”
Our judiciary, which upholds American law, has, by this Amendment’s errant rendering, opened our borders to all the pregnant women of the world. Prior to their “due date,” flights are being reserved for the expressed purpose of gaining a foreign foothold in America. This is too often the case with the nations that intend to do us harm.
Given its original goal, this amendment stands without that purpose today so why does it remain in our Constitution? Could it simply be for those additional Sections? When considering its many legal references and justifications from Court rulings, could it also be that the opening paragraph was only a cover for masking the enlargement of the federal authority onto the State and lower levels, which in itself should place doubt over the entire amendment? The time for the Fourteenth has come and gone, and so should be this blatant federal intrusion into our States!
