Article

2015-08-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Alan Dershowitz: Birthright Citizenship Is 'Bizarre'

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-21 02:11|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Amendment XIV
Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

It doesn't get any clearer than that boys and girls. It was written as such to prohibit states from treating former slaves as non-citizens. I'm sure the 'progressives' out there would like to reinterpret that, but if you are a textual reader of the old Constitution, you can't get away from it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-21 09:49|| 2015-08-21 09:49|| Front Page Top

#2 ...."without due process of law"

And the five simple words of Amendment XIV, Section 1, which ARE NOT HAPPENING !

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-21 10:00|| 2015-08-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe the missing word is 'law'.
Today, it's all about power. For the Left, the ends justify the means which usually involves the absence of law and the application of power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-21 10:31|| 2015-08-21 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "Whereas a person who came when he or she was six months old and is one of the most loyal possible Americans -- Madeleine Albright comes to mind -- can't run for president of the United States, there is something quite bizarre about that but history, the accidents of history are often quite bizarre."

A Macedonian led the Greeks into a series of bloody wars of conquest. A Corsican ran France into a series of bloody wars of conquest. An Austrian ran the Germans into a series of bloody wars of conquest. I don't think the rule about forbidding non-foreign borns to be President is so outlandish.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-08-21 15:07|| 2015-08-21 15:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, we're certainly not going to amend our Constitution just so Madeleine Albright can run for president.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-08-21 15:44|| 2015-08-21 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Since when does the constitution matter? An executive order is all that is needed to stop anchor babies.

Posted by Airandee 2015-08-21 20:10|| 2015-08-21 20:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Subject to the jurisdiction thereof...

But illegals are not subject to the jursidiction - they are alines, and illegally here, therefor not subject to US jurisdiction except for that which deals with their deportation. Dont think so? try putting Mexican in for a Death Penalty crime - and watch the Mexicans claim the US doesnt have Jurisdiction and demand their return to Mexico.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-08-21 23:02|| 2015-08-21 23:02|| Front Page Top

23:45 Procopius2k
23:39 JosephMendiola
23:36 JosephMendiola
23:33 JosephMendiola
23:22 trailing wife
23:19 Iblis
23:02 OldSpook
22:31 trailing wife
22:24 SteveS
22:23 rammer
22:01 trailing wife
22:00 Rambler in Virginia
21:31 Frank G
21:25 rjschwarz
21:17 Frank G
21:16 Frank G
21:10 Lionel Thoth9784
21:05 JFM
20:28 USN. Ret.
20:10 Airandee
20:07 Blossom Unains5562
20:06 JFM
19:51 Blossom Unains5562
19:49 Halliburton - Foreign Affairs Division