Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

The excerpt says that people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and the state where they live. This was the Constitution’s first definition of who qualifies as a U.S. citizen. The amendment extended citizenship to formerly enslaved people, rather than restricting them from becoming citizens.

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