Banning Birthright Citizenship?!? | Recently Deleted Amendments

Banning Birthright Citizenship?!? | Recently Deleted Amendments

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On President Trump's first day in office, he signed an executive order banning birthright citizenship, which is, you guessed it, illegal since it's a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. But how did it get that way? Well, in a post civil war 1868, Congress added the 14th Amendment, stating that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States, reversing the infamous Dread Scott decision. It stood for decades as good law. But in the 1880s, a rise in anti-Chinese sentiment made opponents of immigration tested. They began denying re-entry to US-born Chinese citizens under the Chinese Exclusion Act, including a man born in San Francisco named Wong Kim Ark, a child of Chinese merchants. Wong sued, living aboard a ship offshore for 5 months while his case was tried. And in the end, the Supreme Court sided with him in a 6-2 decision, clarifying that children born in the US, with very narrow exceptions, gain automatic citizenship. What these chuckleheads forget is that trying to change the Constitution is hard by design. To take effect, a new amendment needs a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress and to be ratified by 3/4s of state legislatores. But Trump knows he can't get it done the legal way because the majority of Americans still believe in the Constitution and the 14th Amendment. So

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