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by sarcasmatwork
431 days ago
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According to the authors of the 14th amendment, the citizenship clause was meant to be retroactive, to right the wrongs of slavery, not a forward motion statute for the world. Supreme Court to Debate Birthright Citizenship Case. |
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Because the notion that the 14 amendment was supposed to be retroactive only is definitely not captured in some of those quotes here by the senators who debated it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_Clause