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”.
The section of the 14th pertaining to citizenship status is one of several. only the part pertaining to the above is dead letter. The remainder of the 14th is as you say “alive and well”. You continue trying to bring oranges into a discussion about apples, this is a favored argumentative ploy of radical leftists, ala Alinsky.
I’m sorry, have I now outed you?