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Yes,personsborninthe UnitedStatesundertheFourteenthAmendment arenotbornintheseveralStates

2011DanGoodman Section1,Clause1oftheFourteenthAmendmentprovides: AllpersonsbornornaturalizedintheUnitedStates,andsubjecttoTHE jurisdictionthereof,arecitizensoftheUnitedStatesandoftheStatewhereinthey reside. Section1oftheThirteenthAmendmentreads: Neitherslaverynorinvoluntaryservitude,exceptasapunishmentforcrime whereofthepartyshallhavebeendulyconvicted,shallexistwithintheUnited States,oranyplacesubjecttoTHEIRjurisdiction.[Footnote1]


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NotethatSection1,Clause1oftheFourteenthAmendmentdoesnotstate: AllpersonsbornornaturalizedintheUnitedStates,andsubjecttoTHEIR jurisdictionthereof,arecitizensoftheUnitedStatesandoftheStatewhereinthey reside. BeforetheFourteenthAmendment,thetermtheUnitedStates,referredtothe severalStatesunited: Atthetimeoftheformationoftheconstitution,theStatesweremembersofthe confederacyunitedunderthestyleoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica,anduponthe expressconditionthateachStateretainsitssovereignty,freedom,and independence.Andtheconsiderationthat,undertheconfederation,We,the peopleoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica,indubitablysignifiedthepeopleofthe severalStatesoftheUnion,asfree,independentandsovereignStates,coupledwith thefactthattheconstitutionwasacontinuationofthesameUnion(amoreperfect Union),andamererevisionorremodelingoftheconfederation,isabsolutely conclusivethat,bytheterm,theUnitedStatesismeanttheseveralStatesunited asindependentandsovereigncommunities;andbythewords,We,thepeopleof 1

theUnitedStates,ismeantthepeopleoftheseveralStatesasdistinctandsovereign communities,andnotthepeopleofthewholeUnitedStatescollectivelyasanation. Stuntv.SteamboatOhio:4Am.Law.Reg.49,at95(1855),Dis.Ct.,HamiltonCounty, Ohio;and(samewording)PiquaBankv.Knoup,Treasurer:6Ohio261,at303thru 304(1856).[Footnote2]


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Therefore,Section1oftheThirteenthAmendment;ArticleII,Section1,Clause7 andArticleIII,Section3,Clause1oftheConstitutionoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica refertotheseveralStatesunited.However,Section1,Clause1oftheFourteenth AmendmentdoesnotrefertotheseveralStatesunited.[Footnote3] Thus,Section1,Clause1oftheFourteenthAmendmentdoesnotrefertopersons born(ornaturalized)intheseveralStates. ________________________ Footnotes: 1.AndtherearetheseprovisionsfromtheOrganicConstitution: ThePresidentshall,atstatedTimes,receiveforhisServices,aCompensation, whichshallneitherbeincreasednordiminishedduringthePeriodforwhichhe shallhavebeenelected,andheshallnotreceivewithinthatPeriodanyother EmolumentfromtheUnitedStates,oranyofTHEM.ArticleII,Section1,Clause7 oftheConstitutionoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica. TreasonagainsttheUnitedStates,shallconsistonlyinlevyingWaragainst THEM.ArticleIII,Section3,Clause1oftheConstitutionoftheUnitedStatesof America.
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2.ThepeopleoftheUnitedStatesconstituteonenation,underonegovernment, andthisgovernment,withinthescopeofthepowerswithwhichitisinvested,is supreme.Ontheotherhand,thepeopleofeachStatecomposeaState,havingits owngovernment,andendowedwithallthefunctionsessentialtoseparateand independentexistence.TheStatesdisunitedmightcontinuetoexist.Withoutthe StatesinuniontherecouldbenosuchpoliticalbodyastheUnitedStates.Lane Countyv.theStateofOregon:74U.S.(Wall.7)71,at76(1868).


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3.ToseethattheUnitedStatesinSection1,Clause1oftheFourteenth AmendmentreferstotheDistrictofColumbia,theterritoriesandpossessionsofthe UnitedStates,andfederalenclaveswithintheseveralStatesoftheUnion,seemy workBlundersoftheSupremeCourtoftheUnitedStates,Part3;whereIshow thatthepoliticaljurisdiction(completejurisdiction)oftheUnitedStatesextends onlytotheDistrictofColumbia,theterritoriesandpossessionsoftheUnitedStates, andfederalenclaveswithintheseveralStatesoftheUnion. ******* 3

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