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Rob Natelson on TV: Explaining the Constitutional Issues in "Birthright Citizenship"0
- September 12, 2015
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How the Constitutional Case Against Citizenship for Children of Illegal Entrants SHOULD Be Argued 0
- September 12, 2015
This is a corrected version of an article originally appearing at the American Thinker website. It is the third of a three-part series. In two prior postings (here and here), I listed flaws in the constitutional arguments of opponents of birthright citizenship for children of aliens living here illegally. For children to be American citizens
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Birthright Citizenship Opponents Should Not Rely on 14th Amendment Congressional Debates 0
- September 4, 2015
An earlier version of this article first appeared in The American Thinker. Opponents of birthright citizenship often cite fragments of the congressional debate over the Fourteen Amendment’s Citizenship Clause to argue that the amendment’s drafters intended to exclude the children of visiting foreigners. However, reliance on these fragments is a mistake. Opponents of birthright citizenship
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An Objective Guide to Birthright Citizenship 0
- August 31, 2015
An earlier version of this article appeared in The American Thinker. This is a guide to the constitutional issue of whether a child is a citizen if born in the United States to alien parents here illegally. If you are simply looking for arguments to bolster your political views, look elsewhere. If you are genuinely
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Time Mag’s Constitutional Baby Babble 0
- June 26, 2011
Several readers sent me for comment a lengthy cover article in Time Magazine by managing editor Richard Stengel. Stengel’s piece is one result of new public interest in our Constitution and in “first principles”—interest that has forced political liberals (Stengel has been a paid Democratic activist) to think about the document’s real meaning. Previously, of
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