> The amendment was quite obviously targeted at Native Americans and slaves… Just to return to this for a moment… this is quite incorrect. Native Americans wer

> The amendment was quite obviously targeted at Native Americans and slaves… Just to return to this for a moment… this is quite incorrect. Native Americans were explicitly not included. That came later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un... "Consistent with the views of the clause's author, Senator Jacob M. Howard, the Supreme Court held that because Indian reservations are not under the federal government's jurisdiction, Native Americans born on such land are not entitled to birthright citizenship. The 1887 Dawes Act offered citizenship to Native Americans who accepted private property as part of cultural assimilation, while the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act offered citizenship to all Native Americans born within the nation's territorial limits." SCOTUS did rule on the anchor babies thing, in 1898. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark