Amy Swearer, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, tackled the issue of “birthright citizenship” in a video for PragerU’s 5-Minutes Videos series, explaining that the authors of the 14th Amendment “would have been shocked to learn” that Americans today interpret their words “to make citizens of virtually anyone born on U.S. soil under all circumstances.” Period,” before citing the actual text in the 14th Amendment, which reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.” “The 14th Amendment resolved the issue once and for all,” the Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow added, noting that newly freed slaves and their children “were certainly born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.”
Author: Alana Mastrangelo
Published at: 2025-12-08 22:18:13
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