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The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution adopted by Congress in 1868 to overturn the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857, and birthright citizenship

08/21/2015

Under the Dred Scott decision even children of free blacks were not U.S. citizens. In 1868 this was changed to give citizenship rights to children born in the U.S. It was reaffirmed at different times as children of Chinese working on the railroads, and other immigrant children, were given birthright citizenship. Now Republican candidates are lining up behind Donald Trump to question birthright citizenship, including Bobby Jindal whose citizenship comes from Indian immigrants to the U.S. A WSJ editorial on August 21, 2015, reminds the candidates that they have lost sight of the real origins of that Amendment.

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