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What Is Birthright Citizenship?

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Do children born on U.S. soil automatically become American citizens? Many claim the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that they do. Are they right? Amy Swearer, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, confronts this question head-on.

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I'm not saying that I know the answers, but the main answer in this video is flawed. Why? Because the definition of the word 'persons' in the 14th Amendment isn't expressed. The key phrase is NOT "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The answer starts with the word 'persons'. Persons are not people except when people accept the position of being a person - https://redress4dummies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/office-of-person1.pdf. This means that 'persons' are artificial entities, such as names on contracts and other documents. This means that the document involved must be under the jurisdiction of the United States in some way, which many of them are not. Also the word 'born' is not defined here. So get into the definitions of the words before you decide one way or another. This includes knowing the way court cases defined the words if they ruled on this one way or another.



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