So... you agree with me, but don’t like me. I don’t care.
Women never had the right to pass on natural born status prior to the 14th Amendment [father’s citizenship always essential], and no new rights were added by it. Why did you fail to notice the point?
Quoting Greetings Puny Humans:
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... the 14th amendment did not add any privileges, it merely provided additional guarantee of protection for such rights they already had. From the court Syllabus:
“The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had.”
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I realise that even an originalist is not a strict constructionist. It would be fine to point out the difference. Maybe that would clear it up.
— FRegards ....