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The Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark interpreted the Citizenship Clause to grant citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to immigrant parents.
The short answer: there is no credible record that any “Born in America Act” forcing federal officeholders to resign ever passed Congress; viral posts claiming such a November 2025 enactment are demon...
in the rests on the ’s Citizenship Clause, long interpreted to grant automatic citizenship to virtually everyone born on U.S. soil and reaffirmed in key precedent such as and later cases and scholarsh...
The of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to overturn and secure birthright citizenship for formerly enslaved people, and courts have since read it as embedding a broad jus soli rule while carving o...
The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause provides that “all persons born or naturalized in the , and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens” — a provision long interpreted by courts an...