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The Fourteenth Amendment granted birthright citizenship.
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Is it true that the Fourteenth Amendment granted birthright citizenship?
Yes. Reference sources, including the National Archives and an encyclopedia article on the Fourteenth Amendment, state that the amendment's Citizenship Clause granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States. Other items confirm this reading in passing, while one law-review essay argues the clause does not extend birthright citizenship to children of unlawfully present parents.
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Birthright citizenship in the United States. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States
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Lucci, E. (2026). The Fourteenth Amendment Does Not Guarantee Birthright Citizenship to Children of Illegal Aliens. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6759443
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Maddox, T. (2026). Birthright Citizenship Before the Fourteenth Amendment. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7148358
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If Birthright Citizenship were to be revoked, would it be retroactive?. (n.d.). politics.stackexchange.com. https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/35001
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Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the “panic” over Chinese birth tourism in southern California. (n.d.). osf.io. https://osf.io/s3rgq/download
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Frost, A. (2025). Testimony of Amanda Frost before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, "'Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof': Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment," Feb. 25, 2025.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5169621
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Constitutional Boundaries: The Endurance of Birthright Citizenship and the Future of US-born Children of Undocumented Immigrants. (2025). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5070/lr3.47414
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14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868) | National Archives. (n.d.). archives.gov. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment
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Re-Rethinking Asian Exclusion and Color-Blind Immigration. (2026). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.25172/smulr.79.1.4
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