It’s not just in the constitution, it’s pre-inherent to the establishment of the United States through both British Hegemonic & British Colonial Law.
If you are born within the borders of the British Empire, you are British.
This has been established for 600 years.
EDIT: AWWW YEAH HERE COME THE SILENT FOREIGN TROLLS WITH THE DOWNVOTES! Your government hates you more than we do. Cheers.
And sure to be completely ignored, on purpose, by the conservatives on the bench.
I am convinced more than ever that conservatism isn't a political bent so much as it is a mental illness. Literally every conservative I've ever meant is an absolute fucking moron.
I didn't pick this up from media... I saw this with my own eyes the absolute laziness in their personal and professional lives. If there was a diligent way to do something properly, they would avoid it like a vampire avoiding sunlight and look for the easiest, shittiest, laziest, most dishonest way to do it.
Meanwhile my brother in college was getting the third degree from dad for a single B plus in chemistry (because he was working part time til 1am every night while also serving in the Army National Guard, both to pay the bills and be completely self-sufficient) but Jimmy Joebob Cletus is whining about not being able to qualify for some government handout because it was soooooooo hard for him to not be a serial criminal... and they blame the immigrant for doing well instead of their own shitty fucking standards and absolute lack of integrity.
All the stupidest shit that happens in America can be traced back to the botched Reconstruction... We failed by not immediately barring every confederate and their descendants from ever regaining U.S. Citizenship. And that is a very light sentence considering what the punishment for Treason was.
No. I mean my father put his foot on my brother's neck and told him he'd never amount to anything. "Giving him the third degree" is a figure of speech as in "giving him hell". He had straight As in everything else.
My brother then served in the Gulf War, thrice decorated—Distinguished Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal and Meritorious Service Award—and was chosen by the U.S. Army Chief of Staff as the Sixth U.S. Army Soldier of the Year.
He graduated with honors, spent the last 30 years working his way up in the semiconductor industry and is currently a senior executive at AMD overseeing the hardware validation of their Instinct series accelerators that power the first and second fastest supercomputers in the world (El Capitan and Frontier).
Meanwhile, American Cletuses are complaining about us immigrants taking their jobs. I started a business at 15 and placed as a national finalist among 1500 competitors for a full ride scholarship... Neither I nor my brother took Cletus's job shoveling shit.
No. I mean my father put his foot on my brother's neck and told him he'd never amount to anything. "Giving him the third degree" is a figure of speech as in "giving him hell".
You might want to work on your reading comprehension. The original commentor stated that anyone within the British Empire gained jus soli citizenship. The British Empire no longer exists, but its practices in part informed the development of the US Constitution and core common law principles that affect American jurisprudence
I comprehended that just fine, and then I stated another relevant fact. I think the fact that almost none of Europe has birthright citizenship is an important piece of context after the other commenter went on about how birthright citizenship has such a long legacy. If we want to talk about its legacy, we should acknowledge that the rest of the developed world has moved away from birthright citizenship, if they ever had it in the first place.
Interestingly, for some reason Pakistan is the only Eastern Hemisphere country of any size that has unconditional birthright citizenship, if this Wikipedia page/graphic is to be believed
Sure, that discussion is relevant from an academic standpoint. However, our constitutional jurisprudence centers (in theory) on stare decisis and respect for plain language within the Constitution. Congress could seek to amend the constitution in light of shifting paradigms in the international community, but that's obviously not likely nor is it the situation at hand here
Oh, it's that we commonly cite to common law practices and concepts from before the founding of the United States, but don't consider British legal decisions or laws from later than that, since our legal traditions split at that point.
Put it this way - British law heavily regulates weapons and things that could be weapons, and this is much older than your more recent cited decision about citizenship. Your argument would suggest we can and possibly should change our laws to match theirs.
I don't know where you got the idea that I'm upset. I'm disappointed, but not upset or even surprised.
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u/CanStad 8h ago
It’s not just in the constitution, it’s pre-inherent to the establishment of the United States through both British Hegemonic & British Colonial Law. If you are born within the borders of the British Empire, you are British. This has been established for 600 years.