As SCOTUS prepares to hear arguments Wed. 4/1 in Trump v. Barbara, a new op-ed co-written by Northwestern historian Kate Masur revisits what the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause meant to those who wrote it — and how that history may inform the Court's decision. ⚖️
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“From the start, birthright citizenship was understood as a vehicle by which ‘all persons’ born” in the United States, write Martha S. Jones and Kate Masur, “would become full members of a newly remade democracy.”
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The framers of the 14th Amendment endorsed a capacious definition of ‘American.’
