Selling Our Birthright
Politics Selling Our Birthright REVIEW: 'The Myth of Birthright Citizenship: What the Fourteenth Amendment Really Says' by Richard Epstein (zimmytws/Grabien) Michael M. Unlike European countries or, for that matter, almost everywhere in the world, America, we are taught in elementary school civics classes, welcomes citizens on the basis of ius soli, the law of the soil, rather than ius sanguinis. "I am opposed today to birthright citizenship on its merits," he writes, "even though I am the grandson of immigrants from eastern Europe.
- ▪Politics Selling Our Birthright REVIEW: 'The Myth of Birthright Citizenship: What the Fourteenth Amendment Really Says' by Richard Epstein (zimmytws/Grabien) Michael M.
- ▪Unlike European countries or, for that matter, almost everywhere in the world, America, we are taught in elementary school civics classes, welcomes citizens on the basis of ius soli, the law of the soil, rather than ius sanguinis.
- ▪"I am opposed today to birthright citizenship on its merits," he writes, "even though I am the grandson of immigrants from eastern Europe.
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| Publication time | Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:01:00 +0000 |
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Politics Selling Our Birthright REVIEW: 'The Myth of Birthright Citizenship: What the Fourteenth Amendment Really Says' by Richard Epstein (zimmytws/Grabien) Michael M. Rosen July 12, 2026 image/svg+xml .st0{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st1{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} Most Americans have been raised since childhood to understand that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution confers American citizenship automatically at birth to all those newborns fortunate enough to find themselves on United States territory.
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