"He can't do it!" the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Donald Trump's landmark day-one executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship."...
- The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, reads: "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 clause's purpose was to overturn the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and thereby ensure that blacks were, and would forever be, full-fledged citizens...
Our debate today thus depends on whether, in 1868, aliens—legal or illegal—were considered "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States.
They weren't...
They weren't...
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