Whereas the language of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is recognized as vital for its contributions to civil rights law, due process, and equal protection under the law; Whereas the first sentence of section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was intended to assure that no State could deny fair and due citizenship to any formerly enslaved person domiciled in the United States; Whereas the jurisdiction clause of the 14th Amendment was specifically included to modify and clarify all persons born or naturalized in the United States ; Whereas the words subject to the jurisdiction thereof , as written in section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, meant not owing any allegiance to another foreign power; Whereas an illegal alien, upon setting foot into this Nation, cannot meet the requirement of section 1 of the 14th Amendment to reside in a State; Whereas being born on United States soil by parents who are illegally inside the country and therefore not under the legal jurisdiction of the United States does not qualify a person as a citizen of these United States but of the nation to which the mother or father hold citizenship; Whereas if a person is present in the United States illegally, a child born in the United States to that parent would owe allegiance to that foreign power which has jurisdiction over that parent; Whereas interpretation of section 1 of the 14th Amendment devolved in the latter half of the 20th century away from the original intent and clear meaning upon ratification of the amendment; Whereas the first sentence of section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution has been manipulated and abused by illegal aliens to unfairly gain citizenship for their children and incentivizes illegality; Whereas ending the practice of automatically extending citizenship to children born in the United States by a mother in the country illegally and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the United States should not require an additional constitutional amendment