US EditionConventional wisdom won't hold up in court
- The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to persons born in the United States subject to its jurisdiction.
- Its authors specified citizenship applied only to those under United States political authority.
- Senator Lyman Trumbull, an architect, stated it meant 'not owing allegiance to anybody else'.
- The 1898 Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark examined this clause narrowly.
- The court granted citizenship to children of lawful residents but did not address those unlawfully present.
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NH JournalCounterpoint: Conventional Wisdom Behind Birthright Citizenship Is Wrong
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Conventional wisdom won't hold up in court
The belief that anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen is widely accepted but untrue.
·Cherokee County, United States
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COUNTERPOINT: Conventional wisdom behind birthright citizenship is flat error
Once upon a time, doctors were convinced that using leeches and drawing the blood of patients cured illness. No matter how widely accepted that error was, leeches didn’t cure anything. The same is true for the belief that anyone born…
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