"[The 14th Amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, who are aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person.
I am not yet prepared to pass a sweeping act of naturalization by which all the Indian savages, wild or tame, belonging to a tribal relation, are to become my fellow-citizens and go to the polls and vote with me." | by: | |
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30 May 1866 during 1st session of 39th congress per page 2890 of "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875" |
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