The citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has not been an issue for most of the time it has been in force. Before the Fourteenth was ratified, July 9, 1868, each state had its own definition of citizen. Those laws included whoever the state had wanted to be a citizen. In many states, Blacks, Indians, and women were excluded, and in some states there was a requirement that an adult male paid taxes to become a citizen. When it was written, the intention was that Black people, ...
Recently I have noticed that some words have peculiar meanings. Actually there's nothing new in that, but the word "free" used to seem quite straightforward. Languages often change as results of abuses of the language, and that might be going on, but it might also be that some people have trouble understanding what "free" means. I don't recall the exact mater that got me interested, because there are many things for which no direct payment is taken, and some people erroneously ...
Updated 02-01-2016 at 10:05 PM by PeterL
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