The fourteenth Amendment does not need to be amended it just needs to be understood as it was originally intended. These are statements from the author of the citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment Senator Jacob Howard describing the intent of that amendment. Published in the congressional record May 30th 1866. RECONSTRUCTION. Mr. HOWARD: I now move to take up House joint resolution No. 127. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution (H.R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The PRESIDENT pro tempore, the question is on the amendments proposed by the Senator from Michigan, [Mr. Howard] Mr. Howard. The...

The fourteenth Amendment does not need to be amended it just needs to be understood as it was originally intended. These are statements from the author of the citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment Senator Jacob Howard describing the intent of that amendment. Published in the congressional record May 30th 1866. RECONSTRUCTION. Mr. HOWARD: I now move to take up House joint resolution No. 127. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution (H.R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The PRESIDENT pro tempore, the question is on the amendments proposed by the Senator from Michigan, [Mr. Howard] Mr. Howard. The...