Thankfully, our past leaders have righted ‘some’ of the wrongs of the past:
Birthright citizenship is guaranteed to most people born on U.S. territory by the first part of the
Citizenship Clauseintroduced by the
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (adopted July 9, 1868), which states:
"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."
The Amendment overrode the Supreme Court decision in
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that denied US citizenship to African Americans, whether born in the United States or not, and whether a slave or a free person.
[2] Pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment and the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) a person born within and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States automatically acquires US citizenship, known as
jus soli ("right of the soil").
[3] This includes the
territories of
Puerto Rico, the
Marianas (
Guam and the
Northern Mariana Islands), and the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
[4][5]The "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" clause excluded Native Americans living under tribal sovereignty, and U.S.-born children of foreign diplomats. Birthright citizenship was later extended to U.S.-born Native American subjects by the
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. Federal law also grants birthright citizenship to children born elsewhere in the world to U.S. citizens (with certain exceptions), known as
jus sanguinis ("right of blood").
You have gotta be the dumbest self-proclaimed CoNsTiUtiONALiSt in human history lol. I also can’t wait to see how either of Trump and DeSantis respond to the debate question one would hope the Fox News debate mods ask re: the historical necessity for birthright citizenship.
Please…by all means haha…
carry on
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