Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
What was the purpose of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment?
- The Constitution does not clearly state a rule that determines whether a person is a citizen of either the United States or a State, although it was originally adopted on the assumption that there is citizenship of both (other than by giving Congress the power to naturalize).
- It is assumed that certain people have state citizenship because Article III, which deals with the judiciary, grants the federal courts jurisdiction over disputes involving citizens of various states.
- Article II makes the assumption that some people have national citizenship by stating that only a citizen of the United States at the time of the Constitution's adoption or a natural-born citizen of the United States may hold the office of President.
- However, nowhere in the original Constitution does it specify a detailed regulation about either kind of citizenship.
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