When Senator Jacob Howard explained the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause, he said: "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States."
Most people today read this statement and assume Howard was listing four separate categories of people who would not receive birthright citizenship:
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One of the issues that I have with Mark Ward’s argument against the KJV is that Ward is operating from a position of willful ignorance. Thomas Jefferson once contemptuously observed of Thomas Paine that he “thought more than he read,” and I’ve found the same sentiment to be true of Mark Ward. His arguments often reveal a lack of genuine study and a contempt for the more laborious requirements of true scholarship. Ward’s video on the word excess in Ephesians 5:18 stands as a glowing testament of this shortcoming.
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Bill Fortenberry is a Christian philosopher and historian in Birmingham, AL. Bill's work has been cited in several legal journals, and he has appeared as a guest on shows including The Dr. Gina Show, The Michael Hart Show, and Real Science Radio.
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