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Everyone born on US soil is, by law, a US citizen. If you are within US territory, you are subject to US jurisdiction. That’s how jurisdiction works in every country on earth. The 14th Amendment does not carve out exceptions. You can be born here, and raised elsewhere, and still a US citizen. You remember wrong, and it is as cut and dried as it seems.
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The Constitution doesn’t regard civil rights.
Try knowing what words mean before you use them.
The Constitution restricts the power of the government. In this case, the 14th Amendment was created to restrict the power of the Supreme Court, which had already ruled that former slaves were not US citizens.
Don’t lecture me about knowing what words mean, when you don’t even know why the 14th Amendment exists.
God, dumb people are the worst. Some fuckers can't even Google.
Nice rebuttal
You don't need to rebut basic fact, reality is not a debate.
Scott vs Sandford decision led directly to the 13th and 14th amendment which overruled that same decision.
The due process clause of the 14th amendment prohibited local governments of depriving citizens from life, liberty or property without a due process.
So yeah, 14th amendment does restrict the government, and has been made to overrule the Scott vs Sandford Supreme Court ruling.
Hey.
Morons.
Look up the words you're using.
What's the saying ? "Don't argue with stupid people, they will bring you down to their level and win with experience".
Applies here. No arguments, just personal attacks.
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Not every country gives citizenship to people born there.
There are two basic models:
In some countries you can be a 3rd or 4th generation resident but not have citizenship if none of your ancestors had citizenship.
In other countries you can be a citizen even if neither you nor any of your parents or grandparents actually lived in the country, but you have an ancestor who did.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis
Yes, but I didn’t say that’s how citizenship works in every country.
Again - I don't believe that's correct. It a pregnant woman went into labor prematurely while vacationing in the US, and had a baby here, I don't believe that child would be a US citizen.
If you are traveling in the US on a visa, and your child is born while you are here, your child is a US citizen by birthright. Whether you believe that to be correct or not doesn’t really matter.