Trump’s Critics Are Wrong about the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship

[melvin_udall]

"Thus there are two components to American citizenship: birth or naturalization in the U.S. and being subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Today, we somehow have come to believe that anyone born within the geographical limits of the U.S. is automatically subject to its jurisdiction; but this renders the jurisdiction clause utterly superfluous.

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[justgoto]

Indeed. It is as obvious as "Congress shall make no law," and "shall not be infringed."