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Opinion: Original intent of the 14th Amendment was for birthright citizenship
As I have written before, these ideas, in the context of 1866 America ... drafted the citizenship part of the 14th Amendment, Sen. Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan, said: “This amendment ...
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We Can Apply the 14th Amendment While Also Reforming Birthright Citizenship
Unfortunately, in arguing that the 14th Amendment requires citizenship for ... “not owing allegiance to anybody else.” And Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the language of the jurisdiction ...
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What Conservatives Get Wrong about Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
Yes, as Edward Erler pointed out Wednesday in a piece in National Review, Senator Jacob ... Senator Howard could have worded his amendment any way he wanted. Consider that the 1866 Civil Rights ...