Wong Kim Ark’s lawyers argued that the Fourteenth Amendment’s intended to secure citizenship for newly freed Black Americans but made no distinction between racial or ethnic backgrounds. They emphasized that Wong was “born within the dominion, power, protection, and obedience of the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…and has been taxed, recognized, and treated as a citizen of the United States.”
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