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Whereas the words ‘‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’’, as 
written in section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Con-
stitution, meant not owing any allegiance to another for-
eign power; 
Whereas an illegal alien, upon setting foot into this Nation, 
cannot meet the requirement of section 1 of the 14th 
Amendment to reside in a State; 
Whereas being born on United States soil by parents who are 
illegally inside the country and therefore not under the 
legal jurisdiction of the United States does not qualify a 
person as a citizen of these United States but of the na-
tion to which the mother or father hold citizenship; 
Whereas if a person is present in the United States illegally, 
a child born in the United States to that parent would 
owe allegiance to that foreign power which has jurisdic-
tion over that parent; 
Whereas interpretation of section 1 of the 14th Amendment 
devolved in the latter half of the 20th century away from 
the original intent and clear meaning upon ratification of 
the amendment; 
Whereas the first sentence of section 1 of the 14th Amend-
ment to the Constitution has been manipulated and 
abused by illegal aliens to unfairly gain citizenship for 
their children and incentivizes illegality; 
Whereas ending the practice of automatically extending citi-
zenship to children born in the United States by a moth-
er in the country illegally and therefore not under the ju-
risdiction of the United States should not require an ad-
ditional constitutional amendment; 
Whereas those in the United States illegally are subject to 
our laws by their presence within our border, but are not 
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subject to the more complete jurisdiction envisioned by 
the 14th Amendment as a precondition for automatic 
citizenship; 
Whereas the Supreme Court has never held that children 
born on United States soil to parents who are in the 
country illegally should automatically receive citizenship; 
Whereas a sovereign nation has the right to determine its 
own qualifications for citizenship; 
Whereas only 30 sovereign nations recognize a form of birth-
right citizenship, including only two, the United States 
and Canada, classified by the International Monetary 
Fund as first world countries; 
Whereas during this century three sovereign nations, Ireland, 
New Zealand, and Australia, have ended their practice of 
birthright citizenship; and 
Whereas section 5 of the 14th Amendment explicitly dele-
gates to Congress the right to determine how the provi-
sions of the amendment are to be applied: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls upon the Government of the United 
States to return to the proper, original, and in-
tended interpretation of section 1 of the 14th 
Amendment, taking into account the jurisdiction 
clause; 
(2) disapproves of birthright citizenship and in-
tends to pursue legislative measures if necessary to 
ensure the practice is appropriately ended; 
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(3) supports the directives of the Trump Ad-
ministration to properly interpret section 1 of the 
14th Amendment and, if necessary, seek judicial 
clarification as to the intent of the language of the 
amendment; and 
(4) will seek, if necessary, a legislative solution 
to end birthright citizenship. 
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