I am Kyle's self-indulgence

I heard this story the yesterday about some Republicans who want to remove the part of the 14th amendment that automatically allows anyone born within the United States to be a citizen.

I thought that conservatives are committed to preserving the constitution (or at least what they imagine the constitution to say). Apparently, that only applies to the parts of the constitution that agree with their agenda.

As usual, the debate seems to center around what congress intended when adopting the amendment. So just to clarify, when legislators wrote 219 years ago that "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," they clearly meant that private citizens should be able to own and operate assault rifles and machine guns in 2010, but when they wrote 144 years ago that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside," they clearly did not intend to include Mexicans.

Got it?