Nov. 20, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: The U.S. Constitution frequently refers to people, peoples, and persons. The usage of these words point to people who were in the USA then, throughout history, today and into the future and hence are the only ones who are citizens, plus those who are naturalized by approved methods.
The Preamble references “We the people” means those within the boundaries of the U.S. at that time and born from peoples or naturalized immigrants from then on.
The 14th Amendment references: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” This means only people who come from people of the United States or were naturalized are citizens and are subject to Amendment 14. These would be children of persons who were previously born in the U.S. or were naturalized.
Therefore, no one who is not a person of the United States who comes here and has a child, makes that child only a citizen of the country(s) that the parents came from and are not persons nor citizens of the United States.
And, those that are not persons, hence not citizens of the United States, have no rights under Amendment 14 or under any other part of the Constitution.
All the Supreme Court has to do is rule following the logic given to us by those people who were signatories of the Constitution and Amendments thereto. BRAD PRICE Buena Vista
