[Pilsner]

The solution was to establish citizenship based merely upon jus soli. Birth to the land. (serfdom in medival times.) Mere born citizenship. Restrictions on this type of citizenship included the circumstances surrounding the parents status in the US, legal residency.

Just the opposite. The 14th Amendment was intended to make sure that slaves, and their progeny, would not be reduced to demi-semi-quasi citizens, through the misapplication of some legal theory.

[Forty-Niner]

” The 14th Amendment was intended to make sure that slaves, and their progeny, would not be reduced to demi-semi-quasi citizens, through the misapplication of some legal theory.”

HUH? Pull that out of your pants did ya?

By the way can you link demi-semi-quasi citizen for me? You missed your calling.....fiction seems to be your forte.