14th Amendment
Today in History: 14th Amendment Ratified. Or Was it?
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...Birthright Citizenship: Originalism and Nonoriginalism
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...
Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution: Good Morning Liberty 11-02-18
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...