Trump may think that birthright citizenship is only "about the babies of slaves." But as these statements from the 1866 ...

Sen. John Conness (R–Calif.) then rose to speak in response to Cowan. "I beg my honorable friend from Pennsylvania to give himself no further trouble on account of the Chinese in California or ...

The drafters…said many times that the Citizenship Clause applied to virtually all children, not just the ‘babies of slaves,’” one legal expert said.

For example, California Sen. John Conness said during a debate, “The proposition before us…. relates simply…to the children begotten of Chinese parents in California, and it is proposed to ...