The 14th amendment author explicitly wrote about how citizenship applies only to bloodlines, not soil, thus arguing against his language being used to justify birthright citizenship.
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, but will include every other class of persons.
—Honorably Senator and author of the 14th amendment, Jacob Howard (R-Michigan), 05/30/1866
The 14th amendment author explicitly wrote about how citizenship applies only to bloodlines, not soil, thus arguing against his language being used to justify birthright citizenship.
—Honorably Senator and author of the 14th amendment, Jacob Howard (R-Michigan), 05/30/1866
Sourced from Library of Congress records, quoting from the bottom half of the middle column: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=11