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14th Amendment Citizenship: Citizen or citizen?

Prior to the alleged ratification of the 14th Amendment, there was no legal definition of a “citizen of the United States”, as everyone had primary citizenship in one of the several states. The Constitution referred to the sovereign state citizen, and no one else. Those who went to Washington, DC or outside the several states were commonly called “citizens of the United States.” In the Constitution for the United States, the term was used to identify state citizens who were eligible under the suffrage laws to hold office, and they were required under the Constitution to have primary allegiance to one of the several states. Since that term was not specifically defined in the US Constitution, Congress in 1868 took advantage of this term and utilized it in the so-called 14th Amendment to describe a NEW type of “citizen” whose primary allegiance was to the federal government, ie Washington, DC and not to one of the several states of the union. Thus, using the term as used in the US Constitution to mislead and confuse the people as to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution. Many people have mistaken the citizen as denominated in the 14th Amendment to mean the same one in the original constitution, this is in error. The “citizen of the united states” as used in the constitution is not the same as the citizen of the United States used after the 14th Amendment. So all the elected officials are NOT sitting in the office constitutionally, they are merely impostors created
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13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution

The Thirteenth Amendment:

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, from 1865, abolished and continues to prohibit slavery in the United States. The African-American received legal freedom, but nothing more. The true revolution for them was only after 1954. The congress did not propose any decision for equal rights for blacks and whites

The Fourteenth Amendment:

The Fourteenth Amendment is an example for a radical republican legislation. The first section formally defines citizenship and requires the states to provide civil rights.

“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. 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; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

The amendment includes a section that prevents the election of any person to the Congress who had held any of certain offices and then engaged in insurrection, rebellion, or treason. Another section confirmed that the United States would not pay “damages” for the loss of slaves, nor debts that had been incurred by the Confederacy. Most of the south states, except Tennessee,  rejected the amendment, and they paid dearly later.

The Fifteenth Amendment:

The Fifteenth Amendment provides that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.

This amendment was also intended against the south, that tried to prevent political rights from the blacks.

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If Rand Paul says the Federal govt should adhere strictly to US Constitution, why’s he against 14th Amendment?

Look at this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052802231.html

I can understand being against “anchor babies”.

However, how can one claim to be a strict Constitutionalist, and then contradict something explicit in the US Constitution?