These two distinguished Senators are able lawyers. and I have great respect for their opinion. and. of course. we all admit that a firstblush interpretation of the word "person " does not mean "citizen." But in the peculiar way in which the word "person" is used in the fourteenth amendment. apparently it was the intention to use the word person in the second section to mean citizen. as defined in the first section. In other words. In the first section it provides that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. And then immediately in this second section it says: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers. counting the whole number of persons in each State. excluding Indians not taxed. Certainly it can not be contended that there was an intention in the use of this language to include aliens in such enumeration.
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