Here is what the authors of the 14th Amendment said about the term "citizen" as it is used in the 14th, and they gave us the definition of a U.S. natural-born citizen as used in the Constitution.John A. Bingham, commenting on Section 1992 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, said it means “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States, of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty, is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural-born citizen.” (Cong. Globe,