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Excerpt from https://www.lubbockonline.com/story...le-secession-states-right-or-not/14937929007/
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Finally, what about the "citizenship clause" of the 14th Amendment. It says: "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 clause guarantees me citizenship in both the United States and Texas. I do not believe that Texas (even if a majority of its citizenry so desire) are constitutionally entitled to strip me of that citizenship. After all, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Yet if Texas were not part of the United States, I would presumably have to give up either my United States citizenship or my Texas citizenship.
The 14th Amendment quite clearly precludes allowing a state to put me (or any other citizen) to such a cruel choice. By birth I am a citizen of the United States. By residence, I am a citizen of Texas. The Constitution does not allow a state to make me choose one or the other.
So, because Texas ratified the 14th Amendment as a condition of being admitted back into the Union, it cannot now breach that solemn agreement, and force me into giving up either my United States citizenship or my Texas citizenship."
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Finally, what about the "citizenship clause" of the 14th Amendment. It says: "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 clause guarantees me citizenship in both the United States and Texas. I do not believe that Texas (even if a majority of its citizenry so desire) are constitutionally entitled to strip me of that citizenship. After all, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Yet if Texas were not part of the United States, I would presumably have to give up either my United States citizenship or my Texas citizenship.
The 14th Amendment quite clearly precludes allowing a state to put me (or any other citizen) to such a cruel choice. By birth I am a citizen of the United States. By residence, I am a citizen of Texas. The Constitution does not allow a state to make me choose one or the other.
So, because Texas ratified the 14th Amendment as a condition of being admitted back into the Union, it cannot now breach that solemn agreement, and force me into giving up either my United States citizenship or my Texas citizenship."
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