Adam Harris
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So when you think about those lofty ideals, when you consider that we've sort of grown with this belief that America is a sort of melting pot, the idea of birthright citizenship is one of those things that really made it a melting pot, as opposed to just the ideal of a melting pot.
President Trump's the first sitting president in U.S.
history to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
He did that for this case in Trump versus Barbara.
So why is the administration challenging birthright citizenship?
After the break, we talk about the arguments for changing the birthright citizenship law and how it would actually work.
So Adam, the arguments against the 14th Amendment hinge on an interpretation of the phrase, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and the citizenship clause of the law.
And opponents argue that this goes beyond mere physical presence and includes a required allegiance to the U.S.
that would exclude children born to people who are here illegally or who are here legally, but temporarily.
So people on temporary visas.
So what do you make of that argument?
I think a lot about one of the early Atlantic contributors, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who says that the law stands to say, yesterday we agreed so-and-so, what say ye with this law today?
And the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were examples of the American social contract being rewritten, of our laws sort of reflecting better the moral agreement that
that we had at the time.
Is there an argument to be made that our nation has evolved so much since the Civil War era, since Reconstruction, that the makeup of our nation has evolved so much that that social contract once more needs updating?
One question that I've had kind of growing out of the arguments, the oral arguments, and even before, right?
It was something that had been written in The Atlantic was basically what would this even look like, right?
Say that they try to modify the contract without a constitutional amendment, right?
They have the executive order.
What would it even look like to implement something like this?
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