wanted to reconcile before they died, and they met and they did. and maybe that is something that we can learn from, but i think that the greater thing that i would point to is the seven republicans in the johnson impeachment. if i could just read one thing to you, and everyone often talks about one of the senators, but not this one, and that is lyman trumbull, who is a fantastic senator appeared he became a great advocate for civil liberties. you have to understand that most of the senators when it was said that they jumped into their political grays, it is true. most of their political careers ended. they knew it would end because of the animosity of the period. trumbull said the following. he said, once the example of setting the impeachment of a president for what when the excitement of the hours subsided, will be regarded as
constitution. justice scalia called him a texturlist. the text couldn t be more clear. if you re born in the united states, you re a citizen. regardless of who your parents are. it s a settled issue and it s not complicated. kris, text is all persons born or naturalized are subject to the jurisdictions thereof and are citizens in the state wherein they reside. where is that not correct? where does that not apply to aliens? the key is and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. as jeffrey knows, all words in the constitution have meaning. you can t read words out of the constitution. and so the question is what does and subject to the jurisdiction thereof mean? and if you look at the debates in 1866 and 1867 in the congress, which drafted the 14th amendment, if you look at the statements of howard jacobs and lyman trumbull, they said it means owing no allegiance to any foreign power. owing allegiance only to the united states.
aliens? the key is and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. as jeffrey know, all words in the constitution have meaning. you can t read words out of the constitution. and so the question is what does and subject to the jurisdiction thereof mean. and if you look at the debates in 1866 and 1867 in the congress, which drafted the 14th amendment, if you look at the statements of howard jacobs and lyman trumbull, they said it means owing no allegiance to any foreign power. owing allegiance only to the united states. that would mean that a person who is here temporarily or certainly a person here illegally does not have owes allegiance to another power. in other words, is not subject to the jurisdiction of the united states. those words have meaning. it was never intended to be if you re born here and no other criterion is met, you get to become a citizen. kris, your critics point out the fact that the voter law that you tried to pass in your state was actually ruled