“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Recently published, by Ilan Wurman (Arizona State): The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). Here is the book description from Amazon: In The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment, Ilan...
At Newsweek, John Eastman (Chapman): Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility. From the core of the argument: The language of Article II is that one must be a natural-born citizen [to be President]. The original Constitution did not define citizenship, but...
1. Harvard Professor Raoul Berger’s meticulously documented book, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, proves by means of thousands of quotes from the Congressional Debates, that the purpose of Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment was to...
Today in 1868, the United States general government claimed that the 14th Amendment had received the endorsement of the requisite number of states to add it to the Constitution. Notwithstanding the contention that the 14th Amendment was not properly ratified (I share...
President Trump has put the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause in the news. The question is whether the language in the Amendment—“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United...
There’s at least one positive about people going crazy over a possible Trump executive order on birthright citizenship. Almost everyone – including people who usually hate the document – is focusing on the Constitution to make their case. On...