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That is the constitutionalization of the 1866 Civil Rights Act.
Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, a well-known, famous, so-called radical Republican and Republican leader in the House, helped him draft the amendment and helped him usher it through the committee.
On the other side of the Capitol, on the Senate, Senator Lyman Trumbull, a Republican of Illinois.
Notice they're all Republicans.
He had drafted the 13th Amendment that had been passed in 1865, abolishing slavery formally, and was a contributor, if not the main writer, of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
He was a key figure also in drafting, that process of drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Trumbull.
Then we have Senator Jacob Howard, a Republican in Michigan, who introduced the amendment in the Senate, declaring, among other things, it would extend the Bill of Rights to the states.
Every state.
Now, what exactly does Section 1 of the 14th Amendment say?
The language that is being debated, that was heard in front of the Supreme Court, which they say gave birth to birthright citizenship. Well, we know it doesn't say that.
What exactly does it say?
Quote, right here in my little pocket constitution, "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," born or naturalized in the United States, "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof". Remember, in the Civil Rights Act a few years earlier, which is intended to constitutionalize, it talked about having no allegiance to a foreign country or foreign nation here.
They they basically implement that by saying subject to the jurisdiction thereof, meaning subject to the United States and the jurisdiction of the United States are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.
Remember, they're doing this because of these black codes and these formerly Confederate states.
They're citizens of the United States and of the citizen wherein they reside.
"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."