Birthright citizenship debate echoes constitutional originalism fight over guns: Letter to the Editor

Birthright citizenship debate echoes constitutional originalism fight over guns: Letter to the Editor

They’re at it again! The “originalists” who are insisting that the writers of the U.S. Constitution couldn’t have envisioned how their plan for birthright citizenship in the United States would work today and arguing it should be illegal. The birthright provision was written into the Constitution to allow U.S. citizenship for children who were born here to parents from many other areas of the world. Today, that provision includes those whose anc…