The fourteenth amendments section dealing with births applied only to the children of former slaves and no one else. This there for makes that section now what is called “dead letter law” as there are no more former slaves of this nation capable of bearing children nor of being alive for that matter.
Perhaps some further research into the 14th Amendment is needed? Based upon my research, the 14th is indeed alive and well, and was not soley interpreted as pertaining to slaves and/or their children. The 14th has been used by the courts as recently as 2003. That hardly makes this a “dead letter law”.