Native American Reservations are considered domestic, dependent nations with some degree of sovereignty.
And have nothing to do with the 14 amendment.
Here's the National Park Service Webpage link:
https://www.nps.gov/chsc/learn/education/upload/american-indians-and-14th-amendment-final.pdf
This section is taken from the National Park Service webpage on the American Indian and the 14th Amendment.
Congress passed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to extend the rights of
citizenship to freedmen. The amendment, however, only included whites and African Americans as
legal citizens. Section Two, in redefining apportionment of representatives to Congress, explicitly
excludes “Indians.” The protections of citizenship did not extend to American Indians, the very people
whose ancestors had been residing in the country since
before the United States was even conceived in the 1700s. They were not considered legal
citizens of the United States at this time. Throughout the history of this country, American Indian tribes
have claimed status as sovereign nations within the United States. They have their own tribal
governments and have legal jurisdiction over their own tribal land and members, an arrangement that
continues today. It was not until after the Civil War when western territories applied for statehood, that
the question of whether American Indians should be considered citizens became an important issue.
Also, although you appeared to be acting as your usual smartass self when you made the comment about passports, here's something else from the same page you may wish to consider:
Since then, the majority of American Indians hold dual citizenship in both the United
States and their respective tribes and are subject to the protections provided American citizens under the
14th Amendment. Not all persons of American Indian descent are members of tribes, but they still have
the protection of the 14th Amendment as citizens of the United States. Those who claim American
Indian citizenship within a tribe must register with the tribe and have a blood quantum of one-quarter to
qualify for their Certified Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) card that the United States government and
some tribes requires to prove tribal citizenship . Other tribes have different qualifications for membership,
but many American Indians are both citizens of the United States and members of an American
Indian tribe.
The following passage is taken from the Huffington Post, as I felt you would not accept a quote on the matter from a biased right source.
" By naming Indians as wards instead of citizens, the government was able to take a free hand in divesting the sovereign Indian nations of land and natural resources. If the Indian was merely a ward instead of a citizen, the government was able to treat them as children, unable to fend for themselves thus allowing the government to make all of the decisions regarding land and resources for them. It was financially feasible for the government to keep the Indian people as wards. "
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-giago/the-14th-amendment-did-no_b_8045348.html
No, Indian tribes are not sovereign nations, they don't get to have their own passports.
The problem with Indian Tribes was that each tribe was considered a sovereign nation and not subject to the jurisdiction clause. I'm not certain and would have to look it up, but I think they had to formally ask to be covered by the Amendment.
Most Indian tribes weren't recognized as legal citizens until 1924.
I was born here. Both my parents and theirs were born here. And yet an entire amendment had to be written to give me and them citizenship. So yeah, it does piss me off a bit to know that there are people out there abusing the system.
You just defined a part of birthright citizenship.
Full disclosure: I'm naturalized thanks to President Ronald Reagan.
Ted Cruz's mother Elenor is a natural born American citizen. She only gave birth to Ted in Canada, and ironically Canada has the opposite problem the US does. ANY child born in CANADA becomes a canadian citizen, even foreign born diplomats. On the other hand, if your child is born outside of Canada, the parent must prove a natural connection by descent through at least one parent.
Yep, that's why he's just too polite and wishy-washy.
On another note, I don't know how Ted Cruz can keep a straight face. He has birthright citizenship. He's a Canuck.
To me that's a stupid statement. I't's like saying that I want to lay a living breathing sidewalk because I change the direction you can walk on it.
Another thing is why I don't particularly like lawyers and judges. They love to reinterpret things to the broadest possible meaning. For example, a good lawyer could possibly convince an activist judge that a baby born on an US army base in Afghanistan to an Afghani woman getting care there should be considered
a US citizen. What would be the difference between that and an illegal alien having a baby in a US detention camp?
Right. Lincoln (a Republican) treated the Constitution as a living, breathing document; black people weren't 3/5ths of a white person to Lincoln. Isn't this what Conservatives have been fighting against? The Constitution isn't a living, breathing document. It must be followed to the letter; Trump (a Republican) isn't doing that.
The Executive branch can make new policy. For instance, When Lincoln Freed the slaves, he didn't change the law. He changed the government's policy of enforcement of that law. But he did not make slavery illegal.
The Constitution is not a living, breathing document that you are trying to make it be; let us follow the letter of the law as the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution. Only Congress can make new laws, that is not the purview of the Executive Office.
This is Conservatism.
All you're doing is regurgitating nonsense from cocktail parties.
Let's use logic and reasoning here:
Has every single child of foreign diplomats been born in their embassies since the 14 amendment was passed?
No? Well whattayaknow!
Many of them were, in fact born in hospitals that were under US jurisdiction.
Did they all suddenly become US citizens the second they pooped out of the womb?
No, Well Whattayaknow!
The 14 amendment was meant to grant citizenship to former slaves, something democrats vehemently opposed.
Native Americans weren't even granted citizenship by the 14 amendment. That took passing a separate law called the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
The media, and their liberal and RINO cronies are simply repeating another Big Lie.
Like I said...You don't know the constitution.
Have you read the 14th Amendment? Presidents do not have the authority to overturn a Constitutional Amendment by Executive Order.
Paul Ryan is not a conservative. Nice try, though!
Read the text, Glen Davis. Follow the text. Isn't that what Conservatives do? Paul Ryan does.
The 14 amendment for starters.
Which part of the Constitution do you think I do not understand?
Until the Supreme Court rules, it isn't unconstitutional, and probably not even after that.
Dirt doesn't know the constitution, either.
The way the 14th amendment breaks down as it applies to foreign nationals and their children is still being debated. There is no set law, especially in cases with both illegals and tourism births, where Chinese nationals in particular are having kids here to gain access to the system and leave the moment they are safe to travel.
I'm a US citizen because of Reagan, I will be forever grateful for that; Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. That's un-Constitutional.
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