• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    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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            18 days ago

            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.

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                    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.

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      18 days ago

      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.

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        18 days ago

        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.