No. it does not. So what does it say? It extends citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The key phrase is "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." As the Presiding Officer knows. our Founding Fathers. including our later Founding Fathers who came up with the language of the 14th Amendment. chose their words carefully. and it is a fundamental rule of either constitutional or statutory construction that any word there. any phrase there must be there for a reason. It is not there just to add extra words without adding meaning. So that phrase absolutely has to mean something.
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