alt Hacker News>I should be unanimous, it's what the constitution says
Thats a tautology. “What the constitution says” is the thing in question.
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5upplied_demand • yesterday at 3:23 PM
The language couldn't be any clearer. The fact that it was questioned by people with a stated motive doesn't prove otherwise.
"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."
Sure, but it leads to allowing for the possibility of interpreting "..the right to bear arms.." as "you are allowed to own the limbs of an Ursus arctos".
There's plenty in the US constitution which is vaguely worded, but you have to twist its words an awful lot to deny birthright citizenship.