...Senator Reverdy Johnson, in debate on the 14th Amendment, confirmed,
Now, all this amendment provides is, that all persons born in the United States and not subject to some foreign power — for that, no doubt, is the meaning of the committee who have brought the matter before us — shall be considered as citizens of the United States. (See Congressional Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. 2893 [1866].)
[Source](https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/ninth_circuit_swings_and_misses_on_birthright_citizenship.html)
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...Senator Reverdy Johnson, in debate on the 14th Amendment, confirmed,
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Now, all this amendment provides is, that all persons born in the United States ***and not subject to some foreign power*** — for that, no doubt, is the meaning of the committee who have brought the matter before us — shall be considered as citizens of the United States. (See Congressional Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. 2893 [1866].)
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