Is Birthright really in the Constitution?

[Anonymous]

14th Amendment: Is birthright citizenship really in the Constitution?

Washington – Is “birthright citizenship” – the policy of granting US citizenship to every child born on national soil – really enshrined in the US Constitution? Some experts believe it isn’t.

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[Anonymous]

You might want to provide attribution since you lifted this wholesale from an outside source.

[Anonymous]

Yes, Birthright citizenship really is in the 14th amendment to the constitution. The text is very clear. There are people who are trying to spin this, but they are like the tax deniers who think they have found a secret loophole that makes them immune to paying taxes. It takes a very active imagination to see another interpretation to the text, and imagination is not the hallmark of legal scholarship.

Articles which throw around words like "expert" are misleading. No legitimate constitutional scholar is going to support this reading. Who are these "experts"?

I think that the discussion of birthright citizenship is a worthy one. But it's going to take a constitutional amendment to get the job done. Let's not cheapen our constitution by trying to make the words do what we feel like at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might want to provide attribution since you lifted this wholesale from an outside source.

sorry, from yahoo. Thought I had done this.

[Anonymous]

I thought judicial activism was bad?