A clause that cannot stand alone does not have a sentence’s status. Such is a subordinate or dependent clause which needs an independent clause to make a complete thought.

My previous post concluded that the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause, which requires birth "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, included people born ...

A knowledge of Latin is essential to understanding the original meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, ...